Category Adsense

Does Google Sum You Up?

Apr13

Not everyone knows this, but Google actually holds information on you… no serious they do! And with that information, they target adverts through their network straight to your screen.

But did you also know, you can change what info they have on you and you can also block it. Its all located in the adsence add’s preferences.

Navigate to https://www.google.com/ads/preferences, on this page there is a ‘remove or Edit’ link, click this and be exposed to what Google knows about you!

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I’ve recently deleted my data to see how fast it re generates, its been about a month and the data isn’t quite as accurate this time round, however, its not far of, the gender and age range is correct, im located in Manchester so that’s correct. Dance music and radio is spot on, i check the swimming pool opening times a lot and check my online banking.

The only thing i cant agree on is the Northeast Brazilian category, not sure what that is… honest!

Google Adsence Win/Fail!

Nov2

Browsing the newspaper online tonight i discovered a story which generated some inappropriate adsence. It’s wan’t porn or adsence that shouldn’t be on the network but it shows how maybe Google can  improve its detection of what adverts to display.

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