Re: [silk] Google Targeted ads - gmail (fwd from rishab@dxm.org)

2005-04-05 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:26 AM 4/1/05 -0800, cypherpunk wrote: >On Apr 1, 2005 10:57 AM, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Now here's your one stop shop for evil. A position for Google minister for >> propaganda is about to be posted, so I hear. > >Let's get this straight. It's not evil if people are voluntar

Re: [silk] Google Targeted ads - gmail (fwd from rishab@dxm.org)

2005-04-01 Thread cypherpunk
On Apr 1, 2005 10:57 AM, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now here's your one stop shop for evil. A position for Google minister for > propaganda is about to be posted, so I hear. Let's get this straight. It's not evil if people are voluntarily agreeing to it! Maybe you're being facetious

Re: [silk] Google Targeted ads - gmail (fwd from rishab@dxm.org)

2005-04-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 10:17:46AM -0800, Sarad AV wrote: > hi, > > Maybe it was just a bot parsing the contents of the > mail. Cannot say for sure. Reading every ones g-mail > doesn't appear to be practical. Did you miss the part where Google unofficially admitted storing queries for good? Given

Re: [silk] Google Targeted ads - gmail (fwd from rishab@dxm.org)

2005-04-01 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Maybe it was just a bot parsing the contents of the mail. Cannot say for sure. Reading every ones g-mail doesn't appear to be practical. Sarad. --- Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 09:17 17/03/2005, Biju Chacko wrote: > >Ok, that does it. I am now convinced that Google is > the