Hi fellow Gmail users,
Myself, like quite a few others, decided to change or start using a Gmail in the last year or 2. Gmail is becoming famous for it’s user friendly nature and for the host of features that it offers (Google docs etc.)
I have been using Gmail for about two years and it was just yesterday that I noticed something quite interesting. If you look just above where your message display (above where the buttons are) you can see advertisements display across. Now when you refresh the Inbox or log in again the advertisements change every time. So as I am waiting impatiently to receive an email and refreshing the Inbox constantly I noticed a trend that began to arise. All of the ads were tailored to a lot of common messages that I get in my emails.
For example, I am in accounting and have emailed back and forth with different firms in Vancouver. As a result a large portion of my ads are for something to do with CA Vancouver. In addition, I also had a trend of ads for UBC and business related topics.
In seeing this it shows that Google is going through your messages to try and target advertising towards you. Smart and also perhaps personally invading. I’m sure it’s in the terms and conditions that no one reads.
Just another service provided by your friendly neighborhood Marketing- Blogger Ryan