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OMG GOOGLE ROMANCE <3 <3 <3!!!
Chapium writes "Google Romance (Beta) is a place where you can post all types of romantic information and, using our Soulmate Search(TM), get back search results that could, in theory, include the love of your life. Then we'll send you both on a Contextual DateTM, which we'll pay for while delivering to you relevant ads that we and our advertising partners think will help produce the dating results you're looking for.
With this addtion has Google gone too far with its data collection?"
Oh no, my soul mate is 404 Not Found.
I once had a signature.
With this addtion has Google gone too far with its data collection?
Even the April Fool's jokes have Google flamebait.
Ok, time to get april 1st started:
Story contains "OMG": 1 shot
Story contains Google, MS: get a beer
Zonk says something foolish: shot of beer
SLOW DOWN DAAMMIY!!11ToO muCh..1!!lk21;l1k
Now we really understand why google has collected so much data on everyone! They weren't doing Evil, just trying to get everyone dates.
Pete/Petri "damn, my chainsaw is clogged with 1's and 0's again." --clyde
Imagine if Google profiled you by your Gmail account and web-searches, blogger entries, etc and was able to use this information to do a psychometric profile of you. It could then compare this with other people's profiles and suggest members of the opposite sex that it thinks you would most like!
I don't know whether this would be cool or damn scarey. What's worse is that the only thing standing in the way of this happening is programmer time. What's amazing is how effectively we've created 1984 and in how little time we've done it.
Simon
"I'm getting lucky"
What's amazing is how effectively we've created 1984 and in how little time we've done it.
;-)
Depending on you how you look at that claim, one might say we've actually been quite slow though.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
My Google Soulmate Search found an overweight girl living in her father's garage with orange cheeto stained fingers sucking down a Diet Mountain Dew posting messages on /. about how April Fools Day stories just aren't funny.
She is my delicate flower.
8. Such as?
Flowers. Music. Personal advice. E-greetings. Later on, depending on how our long-term opt-out natural-language-based monitoring system thinks things are going, personalized thank you notes, romantic getaway offers, various intimate pharmaceutical come-ons, engagement and bridal wear catalogs you know the drill.
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