What Google and Facebook Hide From You

Posted on 17. May, 2011 by in Attracting Clients, Blog, content marketing, Content Marketing with Videos, Video Marketing


What Google and Facebook Hide From You

Do you ever wonder what Google, Facebook, and other sites record about your online viewing habits? They know more about you than you realize. And they don’t ask you, they simply assume way too much.

For example, although I live and work from Mexico, I do almost all my business and shopping in the US, in English. I find it annoying when I’m served up pages and ads in Spanish or for local businesses. That doesn’t interest me. But their algorithms mistakenly think otherwise. Why can’t they just ask me what I prefer?

Here’s a TED TV video I think worth viewing, it takes about 10 minutes.

By the way, on Thursday May 19 at 5 p.m. ET, I’m hosting a free webinar about YouTube and online video marketing presented by Colin Martin and Marc Bullard, and you can get the info here: http://bit.ly/jfLTBt

 

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