[ILUG] Advertising in GMail

[Robert Sweetnam]

Colm Buckley wrote:
> On 20 Nov 2006, at 14:25, Daniel Shaw wrote:
>
>> I type this in Gmail now and there is no ticker.. Are you sure that
>> what you are seeing is Gmail introduced and not browser/proxy created?
>>
>> Incidentally I'm using Firefox on XP and I just tested a quick login
>> using IE6 too. No ad banner.
>
> Google frequently runs UI experiments on some small percentage of the 
> userbase; it is perfectly possible for someone to be seeing a 
> different UI from someone else using the same service.  I'm not aware, 
> however, of any experiment involving advertising banners in GMail.  
> Which is not to say that it's not taking place.
>
>     Colm
I noticed it a few months ago on my gmail account but there was an 
option there to disable it which is what I did and I haven't seen it 
since. Doesn't matter which PC I use either.

Regards
Robert