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Contextual Ads Based On Images

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. I WANT MY GOATSE-INSPIRED ADS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    pl0x

  2. Re:China worse than India when it comes to by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So you're selling iodine tablets or toilets or what? What's the ad connection with black water as the main water supply?

  3. Re:If all the world becomes a miiror.. by Thinboy00 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When they know what you like and create an heuristic 'other people that liked X also like Y' kinda system you can actually get useful *new* recommendations you will probably also like... But with an image system like this you can imagine all the stupid fuck-ups and jokes that will ensue... "Yo momma is so fat that the ad Picasa shows next to all her photo's is: 'save the whales'"

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