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A few years ago I bought the DVD of Prof Iain Stewarts's "Rise of the Continents" https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01993gc

For the next two months Google served me ads for incontinence products. (Could do with a bit more "I" in the AI, if such it was.)

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Ha! Confusing continents and incontinence - yeah, a little more intelligence would be helpful there.

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Oct 21·edited Oct 21Liked by Karen Smiley

Yes it always feels like there's a slightly deaf, dirty-minded 12 year old boy behind it all.

It's actually caused by them using a "sounds-like" algorithm to overcome the fact that 90% of people can't spell and the other 10% can't tpye. (That was what I actually typed, but it looked a good joke so I left it!)

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