offtopic: Free gmail account to first 5 emails

3 more left FYI

2 left

Sorry, no more left. I will post again when they give me more invites.

Mike

Thank you very much .

new to the board....but I have been very impressed....looks like a good community.

anyway....I have 6 invites available that I will offer up.

email me at [email protected]

I will need first name, last name, and email address you want invite sent to.

first 6 get the invites!!

THANKS

I have six to give away also

nick.torres

3 left!!

2 Left

Just so everyone realizes, read the privacy policy clearly.

Google will read your emails (supposedly electronically) and then display ads based on the content of your email.

This may be a problem for some people.

Other wise it's getting some decent reviews. The July 2004 PC World has an article about Google email if anyone is interested.

Google will read your emails (supposedly electronically) and then display ads based on the content of your email.

Content Management is far more widespread than you think. The email is not actually read by anyone, or even electronically, for that matter. The application that runs content management has a list of keywords, to which are attached ads. Using various algorithms, the software decides which ad is most appropriate to your profile. You are not a lone in the world and there are many people with similar tastes to you - their profiles are also taken into consideration. Just take a look at Amazon - when you look at a book title, or whatever, you get a list of other books that people, who bought that book also bought.
It's everywhere and quite subtle - I think Google is being far more open and honest than it actually needs to be.

In Germany, there is sufficient information in some databases to actually tell you the average salary range of the tenants of an apartment block, the "average" car and type of job. On a wider basis, they have crime statistics that will tell you how often crime occurs, the level of damage (in monetary terms) and several other things - on a streetwide basis. This is, though, much more tightly controlled than information in the US.
If you have ever wondered why you got an insurance cover for 20% less than your pal, who lives a couple of streets away, it's almost certainly because of what the insurance company knows about your street and his.

Google will read your emails (supposedly electronically) and then display ads based on the content of your email.

Just like we do here at GN (no, we do not read your email!). Google scans the words on these pages and selects 2 ads that have the best match. Some of these are pretty accurate, but some references are quite amusing.

-Laz

Google will read your emails (supposedly electronically) and then display ads based on the content of your email.

In the same way that they read each and every web page they return links to when you do a search for say, "Nirvana".

Still, it's always a good idea to read any site's privacy policy. Personally, I prefer Googles ad generating method to Yahoo's. I really *don't* want to meet singles in my area.

Anyways, it's a good point cnev makes, and one that caused me some concern until I read more about it. The more I learned about Google's mail service, the more it became (for me at least) a non-issue.

-- Scratch 8)

I got 1 left
yes only ONE

will you be the lucky one to get my last invite??

:)

last one gone!!!!!!!

if I get any more I will post them up!!!