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Re:After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges and k... by CPLX on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @10:53AM (#18921847)
Oddly enough, I recently have been seeing an onslaught of Foo Fighters stories on Google news. I am in fact a music fan and musician who knows their songs but I have no special interest in them. I wonder if something about them triggers some runway like function in Google’s algorithm.
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Re:After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges and k... by asr on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @11:13AM (#18922052)
Obviously Google treats "foo" as a placeholder and returns these stories whenever it thinks the user might be interested in a story about a conflict.
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