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Google Nabs Patent To Monitor Your Cursor Movement

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-see-what-you-did-there dept.

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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  1. Hover on this comment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hover on this comment and it will change to something relevant.

  2. Better Google than Amazon... by jd2112 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wouldn't want to deal with no-click shopping.

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    1. Re:Better Google than Amazon... by MikeTheLiberal · · Score: 5, Funny

      This gives me incentive to shake my mouse while browsing. Although, I'll probably get ads for Parkinson's Disease if I do. :)

    2. Re:Better Google than Amazon... by dintech · · Score: 4, Funny

      I wouldn't want to deal with no-click shopping.

      My wife already handles this for me. :(

  3. Re:Adverts... by stonewallred · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  4. This isn't fair. by RabbitWho · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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  5. Re:The only problem with that... by hierofalcon · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't have OCD. I have CDO. That's like OCD but the letters are in the right order.