Contextual Ads Based On Images

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Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 22, 2010 @07:57AM from the a-picture-and-a-thousand-nerds dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Technology Review reports on efforts to enable web ads to be targeted based on the content of online images, not text. All those user-generated photos on Facebook and Picasa could apparently be worth much more if it was possible to display adverts for pet food next to your snaps of your dog. Machine vision can apparently make that possible."

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If all the world becomes a miiror.. (Score:5, Insightful)

by twisting_department ( 1329331 ) writes: on Thursday July 22, 2010 @08:04AM (#32988254)

Great. If all the world becomes a mirror of what I'm interested in, because it knows all about me and my interests, then how do I ever get to find anything new and/or different?

Great idea (Score:5, Insightful)

by Devout_IPUite ( 1284636 ) writes: on Thursday July 22, 2010 @08:12AM (#32988310)

Because then someone is going to put a life insurance ad on your family portrait... GREAT!

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If all the world becomes a miiror.. (Score:5, Insightful)

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