Somewhat OT: Google Street View

I suppose if I were to calculate the odds of seeing one, it wouldn't be so surprising. But I haven't, and it is.

For some reason, an old story has been re-woken.

In my opinion, as several commentators have already said, the issue isn't so much google capturing the data and then discovering and admitting what they've done, as the fact that it seems that most home users of wifi routers aren't setting up any security at all.

Rgds

Denis McMahon

Possibly counter-intuitively, text adverts generally work better (for both advertisers and publishers) than the intrusive ones.

Google already does graphical advertising. If you run Adsense on a website, you can opt in or out of displaying them.

Mark

In that case.... You're Prince "Lobby Lud" Harry and I claim my fiver.

Did you forget about selling them house numbers when needed?

I have seen two, different drivers.

I was driving the PC one day with my (luddite) wife looking over my shoulder, and she was saying to me "There it is! Click there! It's big enough! Can't you see it?"

Just for once the big flashing thing was _not_ an irrelevant advert, but a graphic link to where we wanted. But as it was big and flashing I had tuned it out as an advert, and just couldn't see it.

Andy

Quite. It's too big.

There's a similar problem with paper magazines, where they're making the content, especially the first page of a multi-page article, look (to me) like an advert. So I'm flicking through the pages in skip-the-crap mode and I find myself in the middle of an article I hadn't realise had started.