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Anton Channing wrote: > Simon Waters wrote: >> Tom Potts wrote: >>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/18/microsoft_advertising_pc_patent/ >>> they must be getting really desperate to even think of this >> Nah Google have been doing this for years, and it didn't do them any harm. > > Unless I've missed something, google haven't been > stealing files from my computer in order to target > advertising at me through word processors, media > players and email clients. > > Targetted advertising maybe old. But microsoft > are obviously adding a new unsavoury twist to > a stolen idea as usual... Google are already doing the mail client via Gmail. But I fail to see the "inventive step". We saw Google doing it in all their software, so we did it in ours, I don't think qualifies as "inventive".... but I'm not a patent examiner ;) Does anyone running Google desktop search tool know if it reports profiling information to Google? Simon, off to switch to manual cookie decision in my browser and a big cookie crush
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