• by Joe Mandese  @mp_joemandese, April 24, 2012

On the Internet, time was that nobody knew you were a dog. In fact, there was a famous New Yorker cartoon that attested to that. Fast-forward to 2012, and not only do Internet data trackers know whether you’re a dog, Reed Smith’s Joseph Rosenbaum told Search Insider Summit attendees, “In fact, what kind of dog food you eat, and that you go lie on the bed and watch cable TV when the family is away.”