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		colinplamondon on Sept 8, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Child-safety software sells kids' IM conversations... Totally and 100% different- we're talking algorithmic analysis versus actually honest to god selling the contents of your email.

gaius on Sept 8, 2009 [–]

OK, but how to develop the algorithms without some representative data? Google just matches ads with keywords, its not particularly clever with semantics - it just knows how often an ad gets clicked.

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