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Doesn't the news you choose to read tell Google a lot about you? Google is very good about shuttering projects that doesn't make them money. I'm sure if they'r
by grayhatter 6y ago
Doesn't the news you choose to read tell Google a lot about you?
Google is very good about shuttering projects that doesn't make them money. I'm sure if they're still running the service. It's making them money some how.
- lrem 6y agoBrand recognition? Customer goodwill? Not everything needs to be outright profitable. Google has a lot of money to spend on sending small gifts in random directions. Source: as a Googler I got paid to literally "go find some vulnerable projects on Github and send a PR to patch them"[1]. Google does not make money in any way from things like that, but keeps doing them, just because they can. [1]: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/03/operation-rosehub.html https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/03/operation-rosehub....
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y agoNowhere near as much as shopping searches. It's kind of hard to monetize an interest in (say) Singaporean politics or space rockets.
- MajorBee 6y agoIt's not that hard to monetize interest in damn near _anything_ (as long as it is not clearly illegal, I guess). For the two examples you've posted, maybe advertise flights/vacations to Singapore if you show a persistent interest in Singapore, and market model rockets, space flight simulator toys, really all sorts of consumer-grade commodity products adjacent to the space industry.