Taboola to go public at $2.6B valuation

Re:Taboola to go public at $2.6B valuation by finiteloops on Monday January 25, 2021 @01:13PM (#25906566)

Fairly certain the "artificial intelligence" they're describing are the rotten brains of anyone who works for that company.

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Re:Taboola to go public at $2.6B valuation by ourcat on Monday January 25, 2021 @01:20PM (#25906673)

I'd say it's more like they're getting search data from Google.

eg: I search on some medical condition (which I might or might not have) and the next thing I know, all Taboola 'chumbox' blocks are littered with 'ads' (which aren't ads that 'sell' anything) about said condition. Just extremely low quality links with zero value.

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Re:Taboola to go public at $2.6B valuation by creato on Monday January 25, 2021 @01:40PM (#25906914)

It would be pretty shocking if Google were sharing search data with anyone, let alone Taboola.

Others in this thread mentioned that Taboola used to have literal malware that would replace Google with a google-lookalike. Maybe you have that malware?

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Re:Taboola to go public at $2.6B valuation by gundmc on Monday January 25, 2021 @02:32PM (#25907619)

That is not how Google works.

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Re:Taboola to go public at $2.6B valuation by ourcat on Monday January 25, 2021 @02:41PM (#25907751)

Maybe I should have said 'via' Google.

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