First of all sorry for asking this question on SO as this does not fit the criteria for asking questions on SO. But I still ask here as I really have no idea of a better place to ask.
So, here is the question:
I recently visited an online shopping site where I browsed 6 different products of same category(jewellery). I selected the products, came to payment page, but stopped there itself. I didn’t go any further and the closed the tab in which that site was opened, and then closed the browser full.
I reopened the browser the next day, visited some completely unrelated site(an android forum), but, to my shock, the same 6 products that I has browsed the previous day were showing right in the center of the page AdWords box.
I couldnt understand how is that possible since both the sites are on different domains.
Can anyone please explain or point to some suitable reference…
Thnx in advance…
Yes it is cookies which do this.
Here is an extended answer from the Quora Q&A website: http://www.quora.com/How-do-online-ads-know-what-Ive-been-searching-for