Monday, August 20, 2007

Google sees through you

A report on a randomly chosen AOL user divulged the following internet searches the user carried out - "termites", "tea for good health" and "mature living", all within a few hours. Well, makes me wonder how intimately a person may be known given one's internet searches. Such a life sketch they are - from the mundane interests, pleasures and irritants to the deepest secrets and desires. All revealed by those little phrases we punch away in the Google search box.

Gives me an idea of a dating site that matches people based on their internet searches. Should work - given people's inclination to meeting people as like minded as themselves.

But I'd like to make it better by having it match people such that certain areas of disagreement, perhaps a little more profound than things like favorite color, remained. Complete agreement makes for dull conversation.

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