[baduiux]

Really cool project!

This brought to my mind to do something similar for digital advertisement, i.e. collecting various ads on the web and (automatically) label them through their metadata. I’m not quite sure yet we’re this could go. I imagine different categories: SaaS ads, video game ads, company ads, e-commerce ads, and so on, all categorized by company, date, site, etc. You could then see how ads changed for a specific tag/category over time or how ads for a single company, say SAP, changed.

[rorylaitila]

Nice! And thank you. Yeah I am also cataloging all of the small ads, local or obscure. I want to see what trends I find in them. But they admittedly are not that interesting, unless you are looking for that product. The 1990s and after are not yet interesting to me either. I wonder if web ads will be interesting in 30 years...