Google Nabs Patent To Monitor Your Cursor Movement

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Google Nabs Patent To Monitor Your Cursor Movement 198

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @01:14PM from the i-see-what-you-did-there dept.

bool2 writes "Google has been awarded a patent for displaying search results based on how you move your mouse cursor on the screen... Google's plans are to monitor the movements of the cursor, such as when a user hovers over a certain ad or link to read a tooltip, and then provide relevant search results, and ads, based on that behaviour. It means that it does not require users to actually click a link to know that they were interested in it, opening a world of opportunity for even more focused ads."

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Hover on this comment (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @01:18PM (#33047522)

Hover on this comment and it will change to something relevant.

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Better Google than Amazon... (Score:5, Funny)

by jd2112 ( 1535857 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @01:18PM (#33047528)

I wouldn't want to deal with no-click shopping.

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Re:Too invasive (Score:2, Funny)

by dmmiller2k ( 414630 ) writes: <`dmmiller2k' `at' `gmail.com'> on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @01:25PM (#33047666)

Just wait until low-cost eyeball tracking is perfected. Now, if I could only get everyone to wear my patent-pending tin-foil anti-tracking helmets, I'd make a fortune.

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Re:Hover on this comment (Score:4, Funny)

by somaTh ( 1154199 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @01:28PM (#33047768) Journal

So, now it's Schrödinger's advertisement?

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sadly, my first thought was (Score:4, Funny)

by SLot ( 82781 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @01:31PM (#33047818) Homepage Journal

Michael J. Fox isn't worried about this patent.

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Re:Hover on this comment (Score:4, Funny)

by jgagnon ( 1663075 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @01:37PM (#33047940)

Not if I install the latest version of MouseBlocker+!

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Re:Too invasive (Score:4, Funny)

by jgagnon ( 1663075 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @01:40PM (#33047978)

He suffers from premature clicking. There's an app for that, but he's too embarrassed to buy it.

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Re:Adverts... (Score:5, Funny)

by stonewallred ( 1465497 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @01:41PM (#33048008)

Good, I will keep a window open with the picture of a rabbit with a pancake on its head and have my cursor on it most of the time. Let them figure out what targeted ads to show me then.

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This isn't fair. (Score:5, Funny)

by RabbitWho ( 1805112 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @01:44PM (#33048052) Homepage Journal

If we weren't supposed to stroke men and women in ads then the cursor wouldn't change into the shape of a hand.

What am I supposed to do now?

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Re:Hover on this comment (Score:3, Funny)

by mwvdlee ( 775178 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @01:49PM (#33048116) Homepage

Just hover your mouse near the opt-in checkbox and it'll automatically be checked for you.

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Boxy Ads (Score:2, Funny)

by ctchristmas ( 1821682 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @02:03PM (#33048320)

I fully expect within the next two years all monitors will come equipped with a special extending boxing glove robot arm that will punch you in the face with advertisements. That way you have no option but to look as you get punched in the eye with an ad and you will never forget it.

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Re:Not Accurate Metrics. (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @02:20PM (#33048618)

Hell, I still browse with keyboard commands sometimes. I can go quite a while without even touching the mouse.
You're OLD. Ha! Ha!

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Re:Better Google than Amazon... (Score:5, Funny)

by MikeTheLiberal ( 1865452 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @02:26PM (#33048698)

This gives me incentive to shake my mouse while browsing. Although, I'll probably get ads for Parkinson's Disease if I do. :)

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Re:Better Google than Amazon... (Score:5, Funny)

by dintech ( 998802 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @02:54PM (#33049020)

I wouldn't want to deal with no-click shopping.
My wife already handles this for me. :(

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Re:The only problem with that... (Score:4, Funny)

by hierofalcon ( 1233282 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @03:01PM (#33049114)

I don't have OCD. I have CDO. That's like OCD but the letters are in the right order.

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Re:The only problem with that... (Score:3, Funny)

by gorzek ( 647352 ) writes: <gorzek@nOsPAm.gmail.com> on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @03:09PM (#33049192) Homepage Journal

Unfortunately, he did too much LDS and it interferes with his ODC.

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Re:Adverts... (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @03:20PM (#33049328)

The mouse-listening will be multiplexed to DHS and trust me, they don't take it lightly on rabbit with pancake hovering weirdos like you.

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it has to be said... (Score:3, Funny)

by slick7 ( 1703596 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @03:49PM (#33049722)

In Soviet Russia, mouse tracks you.

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Re:Better Google than Amazon... (Score:3, Funny)

by FlyMysticalDJ ( 1660959 ) writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @05:03PM (#33050714)

This gives me incentive to shake my mouse while browsing.
Is that what they call it nowadays?

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Re:Adverts... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @10:28PM (#33053050)

Fuck adverts.
Really? So you're willing to pay a monthly subscription to all your favorite search engines, news sites, etc. then?
Nope; you'll look at the ads for me. Thanks, BTW.

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Hover on this comment (Score:5, Funny)

Better Google than Amazon... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Too invasive (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Hover on this comment (Score:4, Funny)

sadly, my first thought was (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Hover on this comment (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Too invasive (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Adverts... (Score:5, Funny)

This isn't fair. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Hover on this comment (Score:3, Funny)

Boxy Ads (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Not Accurate Metrics. (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Better Google than Amazon... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Better Google than Amazon... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:The only problem with that... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:The only problem with that... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Adverts... (Score:3, Funny)

it has to be said... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Better Google than Amazon... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Adverts... (Score:1, Funny)

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