It guessed only my gender correctly.
It guessed only my age correctly.
It got both right.
It got both wrong
Using a tracking cookie, Google stores info based on your searches to better target ads at you, meaning that the site guesses your age and gender. You can see what demographic it placed you in by going here. Apparently it thinks I'm a male, age 18-24 (silly google).
I'm curious to see how accurate it is. Did it get you right?
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It says I'm a male age 25-34, which is close, as I'm 23. I think its convenient. I'll be reading about Dostoevsky, then I'll go to google and type only the letter D and Dostoevsky shows right up.
Isn't that how Google makes its billions? By building a database of consumer characteristics and habits and selling them to advertisers?
It must mean you're mature for your age.Originally Posted by Darcy88
I'm down as a 65 year old female. I'm a 48 year old male. My wife also uses this computer though, and probably searches more than me. That's my excuse.
Ahem...
"No interest or demographic categories are associated with your ad preferences yet."
Woohoo, Loka the enigma...
"I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche
It has me as 18-24 male, so it's got that right.
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
It has me as 18-24 male as well....which is correct.
I get how they checked my age, but I wonder how they made the gender distinction. I mostly search movies, books, random data - I don't think I search anything "manly" (maybe video games is what did it.)
I wrote a poem on a leaf and it blew away...
Haha, well that's a bit odd.
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Sorrow is Knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth.
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.
-Lord Byron
Hmm to answer my own question, google switches my gender based on which device I check it from
I wrote a poem on a leaf and it blew away...
Google has a list of categories they associate with me but no demographic, wonder why...
I hope death is joyful, and I hope I'll never return -Frida Khalo
If I seem insensitive to what you are going through, understand it's the way I am- Mr. Spock
Personally, I think that the unique and supreme delight lies in the certainty of doing 'evil'–and men and women know from birth that all pleasure lies in evil. - Baudelaire
Hah! Mine was rather complimentary. It must think I'm a compliment seeker, which I don't mind - it's preferable to the alternative, which I've had an excess of
But then again, it is about advertising...
Does that make you bi-gadget?
24-35-year old female...
But that's not difficult, because recently I looked for methods of getting rid of hair down thereOk, too much info, but it can't have been difficult to determine my sex then, can it?
One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.
"Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
It doesn't have an age for me, but it thinks I'm a woman. That's what I get for searching opera.
Quite the contrary, I don't think it's enough information. Please, tell us more.24-35-year old female...
But that's not difficult, because recently I looked for methods of getting rid of hair down there
*edit* Thread switching mishap, disregard.
Last edited by JuniperWoolf; 01-30-2012 at 07:21 PM.
__________________
Sorrow is Knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth.
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.
-Lord Byron
It quessed, correctly, that I'm female, but didn't list an age. Maybe Google was just being polite.
I like poetry,long walks on the beach and poking dead things with a stick.
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