One of the more interesting stories yesterday (did not have a chance to post at all Monday) was a report from MarketingPilgrim that Microsoft CEO Claims Google Reads Your Email.
I kinda chucked at that but there's some footage plus Andy Beal wrote:
"...Google freely admits to examining your personal information using cookies. However, Google claims they don’t actually “read” your email.
It will be interesting to see Google’s response. If they don’t actually “read” your Gmail, they’d have to come out on the defensive–perhaps even sue Ballmer for slander? If they keep quiet, you’ll know Ballmer’s hitting close to the truth and Google would rather not debate the topic.
You can watch the video here."
I don't think Google will respond; I started to watch the video and would have embedded it here, but it's not in that type of format (YouTube/Google Video, etc) and just streams.
Blah. Google looks for keywords and matches up ads based on our e-mail.
If that's 'reading our e-mail', then Microsoft is watching our TV, checking out our underwear, and soon, reading our medical records.
Posted by: ian | October 9, 2007 4:13 PM | Permalink to Comment