Monday, December 12, 2005

|Gmail Headlines.|

Gmail recently started running headlines links at the top of the list of emails in the window. They come from sources such as the NYT, Reuters and the Associated Press.

I had wondered but hadn't bothered to give much thought to if they use the same algorithim to determine what ads to display on the side based on words in my emails to determine the headlines on top.

Today I looked in my Spam folder and as I was about to close the window, I noticed the headline at the top. Not a link to a news article, but to a recipe:

"Ginger Spam Salad - Serves 1, refrigerate overnight."

I do not know what I find sadder: the fact that they are offering me a recipe of which a spam is such a key component that it's in the title or the fact that it only serves 1.


promulgated by SWS2.1 at 14:11.
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