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From: Cheryl D Wise
Date: Sep 18, 2007 2:50PM

Those are some of them and with Google mail there is also the whole indexing
question. Google uses that indexing to determine what ads to serve with your
mail.

To quote from http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/about.html#ads

7. Are there ads in Gmail?

Yes, there are small, unobtrusive, and relevant text ads alongside your
Gmail messages, similar to those on the side of Google search results pages.
The matching of ads to content is a completely automated process performed
by computers. No humans read your email to target the ads, and no email
content or other personally identifiable information is ever provided to
advertisers.

Ads are never inserted into the body text of either incoming or outgoing
Gmail messages and you won't see any pop-ups or untargeted banner ads in
Gmail. In fact, Gmail users have even told us that they've found our ads to
be interesting and even useful.


Cheryl D Wise
MS MVP Expression
Foundation of Microsoft Expression Web
http://by-expression.com