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Google To Monitor Surfing Habits For Ad-Serving

superglaze (ZDNet UK) writes "Google is gearing up to launch cookie-based 'interest-based' advertising, which involves monitoring the user's passage across various WebSense partner sites. The idea is to have better-targeted advertising, which is not a million miles away from what Phorm is trying to do — the difference, it seems at first glance, is that Google is being relatively up-front about its intentions."

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  1. Here you go by frodo+from+middle+ea · · Score: 1, Redundant

    http://www.customizegoogle.com/ Removes click tracking, google analytics cookies, and a lot more.

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    for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".