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YOU GOT MY ATTENTION

The other day, I did a post about spices and I put up a photo of McCormick blends, the combined mystery ingredients that make up things like Montreal Steak and Mesquite Smoked. Grill Mates, they are called.

Today, I went to Amazon and ordered a DVD and a book. Never mind what. Nothing about spice certainly.

And there, right under my order in the "shopping cart" were shown the very same spices, sold in combo. Grill Mates.

One. I have never ordered these spices from Amazon.

Two. The spices had absolutely nothing to do with the DVD or the book I bought.

Someone is cross pollinating.

They said this would happen. There is a term for it. Data mining.

It has never happened to me so blatantly.

I don't like it.

But whatcha gonna do?

There it is.

Everything I put on the web will go into whatever else gets put into the web and when it comes out, there will be me.

I am not aware that there is any connection between Amazon and Blogger, or rather Google. Well. Not aware.

Not thinking more like it.

The millennium.

It is interesting that there is not more crossover like this. But look for it. If they can catch my temporary interest in on-line images of spice and plug it into my book and dvd purchase, they can and will connect anything.

Labels: internet, security