11. For example, CMGI recently acquired Engage Technologies Inc., which creates anonymous profiles of Web surfers that can be used to precisely target advertising to likely customers. 12. He combines the data with the information gathered by his soil and moisture programs to create profiles of the vineyards. 13. I created two profiles. 14. It provides shoppers with discounts on specific items, but later on it could be used to create consumer profiles. 15. Moore says consumers must grant permission for his firm to create a profile. 16. One program at the Census Web site, called American Fact Finder, allows users to create profiles of their communities and print maps showing statistical trends. 17. People begin to say that Microsoft was spying on them by creating the profile of their computers. 18. Such systems include filters that can ask users which books or movies they like and correlate the answers to create profiles. 19. That makes the templates for creating those profiles more accurate and thus more useful, he said. 20. The samples could be used for research or to create genetic profiles of certain groups, experts said. |