December 11, 2006
Posted in Technology
Random ads from GMail
Gmail’s ad tech seems to have an eerie ability to analyze your e-mail and carefully select advertisers that have nothing whatsoever to do with whatever you’re talking about. Today’s example: spirit power or feather pillows: which do you want?
I suspect these ads were keying on one of two words in the e-mail: “consciousness” and “goosefeather.” And still, completely irrelevant.


