Have you ever wondered how you are viewed and perceived by society?
I have the definitive answer – according to Google Ads Demographics, I am male and younger check it out!
Apparently there is no room or demographic for geeky female! and as I don’t search fashion, pink, hair styles etc.. I am definitely a bloke! My Mum will not be surprised as I have never been the pink, sugar and spice that little girls are made of, she was hoping for when she dreamed of her little girl.
I do love the younger age demographic though! lol I always said I was young at heart.
I was prompted to go check this out by this post by fellow geeky girl ‘The Mary Sue’ who wrote this post: “Does Google Not Understand Women or Just Geek Women?”
You can check yours on this link.
I have to admit I am not sure I want to change this, as I certainly don’t want Google to show me ads for girls, well girls according to Google anyway… What are your thoughts?
These demographics also affect your search results as your search results are all tied up with semantic search and the social graph and it is so important for you to understand what this means, see previous posts on this subject here: Google, G+ and Your World Search Integration and this one Future SEO Pandas, Apple and Siri Oh My!
NOTE: I decided to remove male and enter female just to mess up their ideas of girls and boys and see what happens next, lol.
Annie Infinite
Hi I'm Annie Infinite - I love the internet and all it's digital media have been online for many years, joined Facebook just 4 months after it went public, Twitter had only 500 people on it when I signed up, basically I am a walking encyclopedia of digital and social media just ask anyone. I help people find their authentic voice and project it out into the world with integrity, passion and authenticity. I am an Event Promotions Strategist and I strategise, manage and train business owners just like you to use digital and social media intelligently. I am the Digital Media Sourceress of Oz and Goddess of Geek lol. About Annie Infinite2 Responses to “According to Google I am a Bloke”
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Are the interests pretty closely matched? Suppose that’s the key thing (from a marketing perspective)
I quote agree Adi, I was more amused than upset by it, and the problem (or not) has been happening most of my life regarding the tom boy, geeky, younger mindset lol and my boys love it too. Both tech heads although I am not in their league when it comes to technical things. And I also thought it was an interesting indictment on how people in general put you in boxes without thinking