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Otherside
Joined: 06 Sep 2007
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 3:02 am Post subject: Gmail Ads. |
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As many of you who use gmail know, they use "targetted advertising", so if you recieve an email from your mate talking about last night's football match, they'll throw a list of ads (on the side) about football, betting on football, buying football tickets and so forth. The same applies to pretty much any topic, and usually the ads are relativly appropriate.
Normally I wouldn't post this, but in the news lately there is much talk about how 'advanced' google's adsense technology really is. But here's the kicker, WHENEVER i recieve an email from a korean friend (with a korean email address) I always get a ton of ads in Korean. Perhaps appropriate, but the entire email is in English, yet the ads are in Korean, and nothing about "me" has suggested i speak a lick. Even better, the technology has picked up the words in English, and proceeded to translate them and give me appropriate ads in Korean.
So my friend who just sent me an email about her trip to the UK results in me getting a whole bunch of "visit UK" stuff in Korean.... Google Sparkling?  |
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JustJohn

Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting.
On a side note, has anyone been having problems with regular gmail lately? As of yesterday or the day before I have only been able to load the html version. The standard version seems to go through the load cycle over and over again but never complete. |
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Toon Army

Joined: 12 Mar 2007
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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| JustJohn wrote: |
Interesting.
On a side note, has anyone been having problems with regular gmail lately? As of yesterday or the day before I have only been able to load the html version. The standard version seems to go through the load cycle over and over again but never complete. |
yes, my account got hacked! Luckily just an account I use for non important things though. Did get it back eventually |
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ciccone_youth

Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Location: Japan
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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:53 am Post subject: |
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| JustJohn wrote: |
Interesting.
On a side note, has anyone been having problems with regular gmail lately? As of yesterday or the day before I have only been able to load the html version. The standard version seems to go through the load cycle over and over again but never complete. |
yes, same problem here. you just have to clear all your cookies and cache, then try again you'll be fine. |
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