to be told that they wouldn't ship them outside the USA. It seems really strange as they seem to be able to recommend other products on their site without too much trouble but with anything else it seems they're left dumbfounded. So this got me thinking, all these analytical engines out there, which are apparently the magic sauce behind all of these targeted advertising systems, must be spectacularly crap. I'm not the most private person I'm constantly spamming this blog, Twitter and Facebook with all manner of inane stuff I'm interested in so its not like there isn't a whole lot of data these guys could be pillaging in order to figure out what they should be peddling to me. Indeed Google has the poorest excuse of the lot of them as I browse through a logged in Google Chrome and search whilst logged into my Google account. Still their algorithms seem to be heavily weighted to advertise things to you that you've already seen which, at least in my case, seems counter to what you'd want to do. The flip side of this is that I'm somehow not giving out information for these things to be able to make accurate recommendations which I just don't believe is the case. Amazon and Google have a treasure trove of information related to my searching, viewing and buying habits and yet I rarely see advertisements or recommendation for things like cameras, supplements and tech gadgets all of which can be high value/high