Hi there,
I would like to start a new project where Arduino checks for the most used words that can be found on online advertising.
While I pretty much know how to do this (code wise) I was wondering if any of you could suggest where I should be looking to find the words. In other terms, do you know if there is any special place where advertisements are screened, or placed, perhaps just transformed into text, so that I can grab the words and then filter them?
It wouldn't need to be working in real time, it could be updated every few minutes or so.
At the moment I am thinking about connecting to a google search and use some commands to look for the ads that are normally placed on top of the results; or there could be some piece of code I could use to search on facebook's ads etc
Many thanks in advance for any idea you feel like sharing.
Firstly, I don't see how or why you would implement this on an Arduino. The implied data requirements are vastly more than an Arduino can handle. It's a job for a PC.
Secondly, the scope of the project as stated is so vague that this could be trivial, or a vast project. If you only want to monitor the use of online advertising in a specific web page, that's tricky to do in a generic way but you could kludge something together for a specific version of a specific page that told you what adverts were served to you currently. Unfortunately, as the page design evolves so must your solution. This only tells you the adverts delivered to you, it tells you nothing about what's being delivered to other people. Extending this to cover a whole site would require a more complicated solution. Extending it to cover multiple sites with the same advert provider would require a solution that is even more complicated. Extending to support multiple providers makes it more complicated again. Remember, this is only monitoring adverts served to you based on your location, history, cookies etc. To do this for multiple locations and multiple users requires massively more resources and complexity and is the sort of thing that Google does - not somebody sitting at home with a microcontroller.
Hey, thanks for your quick and insightful reply.
Looks like this is something I should do with a small pc then, something like a mac mini would probably work.
Uhmm… also looks like the scope will probably be too big, I should use some api from google or similar, I have noticed there are some services one can pay for, where they let you search by brand, but still no one does it by terms and still the web analytics I should derive would be far too complex to be requiring arduino.
Thanks anyway!
Best
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