[ILUG] Advertising in GMail

[Frank Duignan]

Well I stuck a DIT address in there and it seems to think DIT is somewhere
in islamabad!
Guess its not quite right yet!

On 11/20/06, brendan at zen.org <brendan at zen.org> wrote:
>
> Quoting James McCarthy <mccarthyjames at gmail.com>:
> > Would this be simply because google knows I'm Irish & live in Dublin,
> > or have they analysed my email to such an extent that they have
> > surmised that I am the perfect candidate for a visit to this strip
> > club?
>
> I'd guess they use your IP's subnet to figure out which add to toss
> up.  For
> fun,
>    http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm
>
> Anonymizing proxies unite! :)
>
> B
>
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