Theodp writes "A newly-issued Google patent for game plan Advertisements With scoop Having One or More Topics Using User Topic Interest describes how to detect the subsistence of ditto* by 'using affirmation of sophistication determined using user actions' and visual mission control station their front using the Google Toolbar and other methods to deliver targeted ads. Which is interesting, since the Google Terms of Service supposedly prohibit the use of casework by anyone 'not of legal age.' The experimenter is Google Principal rocketeer Krishna Bharat, who is a co-inventor of another pending Google patent for inferring searchers' ethnicity, reading level, age, sex and income (and storing it all)." Ok I'll be the first to admit that this is greek to me. Someone smart figure this out and post a comment translating patentese into english.

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