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Google Nabs Patent To Monitor Your Cursor Movement
bool2 writes "Google has been awarded a patent for displaying search results based on how you move your mouse cursor on the screen... Google's plans are to monitor the movements of the cursor, such as when a user hovers over a certain ad or link to read a tooltip, and then provide relevant search results, and ads, based on that behaviour. It means that it does not require users to actually click a link to know that they were interested in it, opening a world of opportunity for even more focused ads."
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I wouldn't want to deal with no-click shopping.
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
Just wait until low-cost eyeball tracking is perfected. Now, if I could only get everyone to wear my patent-pending tin-foil anti-tracking helmets, I'd make a fortune.
"No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up." -- Lily Tomlin
Michael J. Fox isn't worried about this patent.
He suffers from premature clicking. There's an app for that, but he's too embarrassed to buy it.
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Good, I will keep a window open with the picture of a rabbit with a pancake on its head and have my cursor on it most of the time. Let them figure out what targeted ads to show me then.
If we weren't supposed to stroke men and women in ads then the cursor wouldn't change into the shape of a hand.
What am I supposed to do now?
it's under construction
I fully expect within the next two years all monitors will come equipped with a special extending boxing glove robot arm that will punch you in the face with advertisements. That way you have no option but to look as you get punched in the eye with an ad and you will never forget it.
Hell, I still browse with keyboard commands sometimes. I can go quite a while without even touching the mouse.
You're OLD. Ha! Ha!
I don't have OCD. I have CDO. That's like OCD but the letters are in the right order.
Unfortunately, he did too much LDS and it interferes with his ODC.
Check out my world simulator thingy.
The mouse-listening will be multiplexed to DHS and trust me, they don't take it lightly on rabbit with pancake hovering weirdos like you.
In Soviet Russia, mouse tracks you.
The mind conceives, the body achieves, the spirit manifests.
Fuck adverts.
Really? So you're willing to pay a monthly subscription to all your favorite search engines, news sites, etc. then?
Nope; you'll look at the ads for me. Thanks, BTW.