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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
I've got italian adds too, and I'm not italian, don't speak italian, and don't surf italian sites.
So I think conspiracy theories regarding gmail can be put to rest.
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It's no conspiracy theory... this is what Google does with gMail (and yes, Google makes ALL of their profit on advertising). Face it, Google owns our souls. At least they aren't intrusive and annoying about it like Microsoft is...
It also does the same with the ads on CP. It uses a proprietary algorithm to scan the page (or email content) looking for specific key words. It then tailors the ad's that are displayed to the nearest match.
Given that it's a learning algorithm, the accuracy is highly dependent on the content provided.