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Contextual Ads Based On Images

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @11:57PM from the a-picture-and-a-thousand-nerds dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Technology Review reports on efforts to enable web ads to be targeted based on the content of online images, not text. All those user-generated photos on Facebook and Picasa could apparently be worth much more if it was possible to display adverts for pet food next to your snaps of your dog. Machine vision can apparently make that possible."

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Re:I WANT MY GOATSE-INSPIRED ADS! by Chrisq · 2010-07-22 00:02 · Score: 4, Funny

I WANT MY GOATSE-INSPIRED ADS!
Add for the latest iPhone coming up.
No examples by Thanshin · 2010-07-22 00:25 · Score: 5, Funny

This would be Epic if they add Clippy-like messages.
"I see you've got a very ugly gf. Do you want to hire a prettier one? Click on me for today's special promotions".
Re:Great idea by Walterk · 2010-07-22 00:26 · Score: 4, Funny

Imagine all the Clearasil ads on the self portraits of most /.ers!
Zing!

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