1997-01-29 - Re: AltaVista sprouts a hole …

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From: Jeremiah A Blatz <jer+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Message Hash: 48cee26cd7b6a5634d2c7383dd0a997b3d22b0de65fbe99c56fa336fa1904d09
Message ID: <199701291513.HAA03690@toad.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1997-01-29 15:13:11 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 07:13:11 -0800 (PST)

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From: Jeremiah A Blatz <jer+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 07:13:11 -0800 (PST)
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Subject: Re: AltaVista sprouts a hole ...
Message-ID: <199701291513.HAA03690@toad.com>
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Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> writes:
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> Sender: e$@thumper.vmeng.com
> Reply-To: Russell Stuart <R.Stuart@rsm.com.au>
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> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 08:07:27 +1000
> From: Russell Stuart <R.Stuart@rsm.com.au>
<snip>

> However, the doubleclick.net ads appear to bear no relationship to the
> keywords being searched, and they appear not only in the URL for the
> hyperlink to follow, but also in the IMG SRC URL.  This means that in
> order
> to avoid disclosing my keyword lists to doubleclick.net, I have to
> disable
> automatic loading of inline images when using AltaVista!

Actually, the ads *do* relate to the keywords. Try doing a search for
"flowers" and a search for "sex."

http://www.anonymizer.com/

Jer

"standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew
 why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole

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