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egyptian zombie robot
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Date:
Sat, 12 Feb 2005 00:12:46 -0500
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Re: [idm] gmail is so idm.
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It's not that it's tracked, but the software does scan the email for keywords to pull ads that seem to fit. the information is not 'used' in a way that has any human read your email nor is any of your email content supplied to third parties... the 'computer' just grabs keywords and displays text ads that already exist in their database for those keywords. Very similar to the text ads that show up to the right of certain google searches. For more info see: http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/more.html i read your email, xenlab Mupetblast@aol.com wrote:
quoted 6 lines Yea, Gmail is pretty good, I have it. There is no junk mail per se, but apparently your em> Yea, Gmail is pretty good, I have it. There is no junk mail per se, but apparently your emails are tracked and its content taken note of, so advertisers know what to pitch to you. You'll notice this on the right side of your screen when reading your email. For example, I sent my friend an article from The Guardian about women in Saudia Arabia, and noticed travel agency ads with hotel information for Riyadh! > >-Dain > > >
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