On: Google starts tracking what people buy in physical...

[talamown]

Amazon already has been doing this as well.

They started to recommend some items related with books I have never bought online, just after I got them at local bookstore by credit card.

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Isn't there a difference? Google is sharing that offline purchase insight with advertising clients, rather than simply using that data itself, as does Amazon.

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Where the advertising client is the local bookstore that he purchased the book from.