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The Problem With Facebook Ads? Most Of Them Are Rubbish

There was an excellent article in yesterday’s Media Guardian bemoaning the lack of creativity in the Christmas advertising by the main British retailers. Naresh Ramchandani noted that most of these companies had seen disappointing sales over the festive period (although it’s likely that the general economic uncertainty played a part in that) and compared this […]

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Are you being Go-ogled?

I discovered something last night, something about my Google account…
It’s been watching me…
It knows where I’ve been…
I am, of course, referring to Google’s “Web History” feature, a feature that is apparently designed to help you manage your web activity and get results more relevant to me when I search. So they’re using my web history […]

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Google’s Not Perfect On Privacy, But It’s Not That Bad

A recent report on how companies deal with their users’ privacy has been attracting a lot of attention, especially the fact that it ranked Google as the worst offender in terms of data protection. That claim seems to have been accepted by most of the mainstream media, but is not being treated so lightly in […]

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