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Re:Paul Graham, the Commons, and How Google Stopped Being Go... by keltex on Thursday March 22, 2012 @05:25PM (#3742083)
This is called google "remarketing". Basically what happened is when you visited the Eames chair site, you received a remarketing cookie.

Then when you visit other google properties, google automatically gives you ads from that Eames chair site.

http://www.google.com/ads/innovations/remarketing.html

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Re:Paul Graham, the Commons, and How Google Stopped Being Go... by spc476 on Thursday March 22, 2012 @05:59PM (#3742237)
I did the search from my home computer. The Eames chair ads are showing up not only at home, but on my computer at work as well. Seeing how I've never logged into any Google property at work, I find that interesting.
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