Because the companies rely on user queries to target advertising, shortening the time that search engines keep such records may cut into advertising revenue.
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However, if we deliver such ads using first party data i.e. by explicit permission of the user, by letting the user define the target audience for the display ads.
It has tremendous opportunity to leverage its user data to better target advertisements, as well as improve and fine tune the current ads.
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Facebook has a tremendous opportunity to leverage its user data to better target advertisements as well as improve and fine tune the current ads.
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Google says it's to enhance user experience (and better target ads) but some critics fear having all of that activity rounded up in one place.
Clearly no one has been able to produce a good user interface or a way to target customers on the go.
Google, the popular search engine and a heavy user of Linux, is one potential target.
Thirty-four of the 35 met the target fees set by the user fee law.
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Indeed, user data is not exploited only to target advertising.
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WeChat's user base includes much of China's smartphone-owning middle class, a highly attractive target for advertising, but Tencent says it is still improving user experience and has no plans to make money off the service yet.
The site doesn't collect a lot of demographic data on its users, but Mr. Gottfrid said there is an opportunity to target ads based on the content a user is interested in.
But it does track user activity, to make inferences and build a user profile, which is then used by marketers to target ads.
Jez Jowett, head of London-based creative agency Cake New Media which designed the Web site, told CNN that a user-friendly Web site could work extremely well to target key demographics.
Sure, Canon could have added some of the dedicated controls that its professional user base would demand, but photojournalists aren't the target here, for a few reasons.
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The hack is a simple cross-site scripting vulnerability, a flaw in how Skype handles user input and prevents it from being interpreted as commands on the target machine.
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The company previously could only target ads based on limited actions on Facebook such as a user's "like" of a company page.
As the Wentworth states, some context can be derived based on where the user came from and what they were doing just prior to their arrival on the target site.
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Breaking ground with the world's first fat and stress sensors located on the top of the player, MyFit measures a user's wellness indicators and contains an exercise management program to keep people on target with their fitness goals.
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Soon, the video was being used online as a new target for the bait-and-switch Rickroll meme in which a user posts a link to something supposedly relevant or interesting but turns out to be a ridiculous or annoying video or image instead.
Both the 3D data (MPO format) and the JPEG data are saved. 3D Photo can be used in Auto (after the first shot is complete, the second shot will automatically be taken once the camera is moved to match the target) and Manual (after the first shot is complete, the user takes the second shot after matching the semi-transparent layers).
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Facebook has revealed it was the target of a "sophisticated attack" by hackers last month, but found no evidence any user data had been compromised.
Potentially more exciting is the fact that NFLX may need to redefine its target market from broadband households to broadband users as each household may have more than one broadband user at a time.
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In reality, the WhatsApp active user base that now likely tops 200 million combined with maintaining a torrid growth clip makes the company a tempting target for a variety of companies ranging from Google to Twitter to Amazon.
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Location is not shared with any third party or ad unless the user explicitly approves giving the current location to the current ad (for example, to request the ad locate the Target store nearest them).
For example, a news organization may want to have a "high priority" transcoding pipeline for breaking news stories, or a User-Generated Content website may want to have separate pipelines for low, medium, and high resolution outputs to target different devices.
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