Let’s try a simple explanation: when you land on a web page, your attention is captured by a particular section of the page, a subject, a sub-story. Problem: the ad embedded in the page (on which you are extremely unlikely to click, let’s face it) is automatically served to you on the basis of the URL and of the general content. Google’s new patent refines this by adding a vast array of behavior components. Some sound realistic: cursor dwell time or volume up in an audio segment. Others are more futuristic: viewer eye direction, or even facial expression. But it gives an idea where Google is heading: very far.
> read the article by tech pundit Nicholas Carr
> and if you want to go to the bottom of it, you can always attack the original document filled on the US Patent Office
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