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Re:Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market by adrr on Monday September 03, 2018 @05:45PM (#17905079)
If we're talking about data I think Google wins. Email is the activity stream of all your online purchases. Google analytics has the users' clickstream data. Google messenger and google+ gets the relationships the user has. Youtube gets entertainment data. Search is what is relevant to the custom at the moment of time.

If I was Amazon, i'd look at buying mint from intuit to get all the banking data from users.

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Re:Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market by redial on Monday September 03, 2018 @05:50PM (#17905103)
> Google messenger and google+ gets the relationships the user has.

Nobody uses google+.

> Search is what is relevant to the custom at the moment of time.

Yes, but in 5 years? Amazon is playing the long game.

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Re:Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market by cpeterso on Monday September 03, 2018 @09:04PM (#17905876)
Amazon stopped including full invoices in customer emails to prevent email providers from using them to reconstruct users' purchase histories.
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Re:Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market by mrep on Monday September 03, 2018 @07:17PM (#17905485)
Google doesn't read your email for ads anymore so that is moot for them.
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Re:Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market by confounded on Monday September 03, 2018 @09:55PM (#17906072)
Source?
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Re:Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market by scarface74 on Monday September 03, 2018 @11:30PM (#17906421)
https://marketingland.com/targeting-changes-google-stops-sca...
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Re:Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market by pinewurst on Monday September 03, 2018 @05:47PM (#17905085)
For the 3 people on Google+?
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Re:Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market by jacquesm on Monday September 03, 2018 @05:58PM (#17905149)
Someone once told me that Google+ was built using a lock-free architecture, it took me years to get the joke.
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Re:Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market by pookeh on Monday September 03, 2018 @05:49PM (#17905096)
You can replace "Google messenger and google+" with Android.
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Re:Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market by scarface74 on Monday September 03, 2018 @05:58PM (#17905148)
And with Android in Western countries, statistically you get much less affluent users....

I would think that a lot of communications on mobile would be going through third party chat apps.

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