Cognition » greasemonkey http://www.cognition.ca Balls-in-the-air Entrepreneurship and Juggling. Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:29:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 A quick idea for Google http://www.cognition.ca/2007/12/quick-idea-for-google.html http://www.cognition.ca/2007/12/quick-idea-for-google.html#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:16:00 +0000 admin http://www.cognition.ca/?p=22 I have categorically refused to build a web business based on advertising revenue. Eventually I had to ask myself “why”, and this is what I came up with – I find advertising repugnant, EXCEPT when it’s about something I want.

A little light went off in my head – I know how to hack google adsense to display ads based on a given keyword. I know how to use greasemonkey to edit the pages I’m browsing. And I know how to get my recent search history out of google. Why not combine these – a greasemonkey script that rewrites google adsense to be ads for products matching my recent search history? It could even be customized with a keyword list of my own devising.

I can’t imagine google would object – the ads will still be there, they’ll just be better.

Thoughts?

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