Fwd: [ILUG] Google Job

[Colm Buckley]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 19:51:19 +0200, Ramón Fallon <ramon at movora.com> wrote:

> where's the ad at the bottom of the mail then?
>
> or is it, if you pay for your gmail, they suppress it?

The ads don't appear on emails *sent* by GMail, they appear in the
GMail client as you read your email.  It's basically the exact same
technology we use for our AdSense progam (the "Ads by Google") links
you see on many web pages - we scan the email thread being read for
keywords, etc. and show some relevant advertisements in the client.

This has amazing potential to creep people out, and I think it'll take
some getting used to, but in the end I hope that the users will be
smart enough to realise that their emails aren't being "read" any more
than their search queries are - it's just a simple matching of ads to
keywords.



Colm

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