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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
Yeah, I believe Google scans through your email and picks off key words and posts subsequent advertisments for them. Don't you ever wonder why Google is worth as much as they are? Where does their money come from? Obviously, they are an internet advertisement company, they make their money like TV commercials and newspaper advertisements. Here, same thing, what makes Google sexy for online advertisements is that in your account, they are able to target specific advertisements to your activities.
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Yup. This now has me thinking a little differently about gmail. I still love it and all, but now I'm becoming a bit more aware of why they even created it. I mean, ridiculous amounts of space, never throw away an email... Hmmmm... Never really occurred to me until now. Advertising. Google can see that there are dozens or hundreds of messages in italian in my email, so they're sending me ads for vacations in Perugia, in italian, on CP. Slick.
I'm now having a hard time being annoyed by this. I think it's a pretty darn innovative business they're running. Creepy, but cool.