Contextual Ads Based On Images 66
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."
Evolution (Score:2, Interesting)
People are tired of crapvertisement exploding, find efficient entertainment elsewhere, internet evolves
2000s:
The internets is a fun place, banners and popups are crap but they can be turned off, we have fun
2005:
"Non-intrusive" ads, they work well, people are spending money on things they want
2007:
Explosion of "non-intrusive" ads, so whored out by 3rd parties it becomes a chaos of irrelevant ads with alot of clickthrough to get to actual content.
2009:
After people found a "place online" to display their alter egos, their data is used to target them with unrelevant ads
2010:
People's nonsignificant images are used and linked with any potential "product" that might be relevant 2011:
Internet is the new television, nerds and geeks stop using the general internet and dive into darknets, advertizers chase them further down to sell stuff they don't want or need.
Re:If all the world becomes a miiror.. (Score:3, Interesting)
Plus you can be damn sure that if this system is smart enough to be useful it will be gamed, and I'm not worried about companies trying to get more hits, but rather the
Photo's of your little kids = "God loves all little children. Become a priest now!"
Everything pokemon-ish = "So i herd u liek Mudkip"...
Fuck, there will be more horrors than you or I can imagine now... and I can imagine quite a lot...