GMail and Spam
I like to keep a web-based email account that I use when I am forced to enter an email for a software download or other such sites. This way my normal email inbox is at least somewhat less cluttered with Spam. Lately I’ve been using my GMail account for this.
GMail has some spam filtering which throws all suspicious mail into a spam folder. Google has also added a small advertising banner across the top menu bar of the mail display, which shows links to commercial sites related to the email or folder you are looking at. The net result you can see here:
So, the menu bar of my GMail Account’s Spam folder is a never ending generator of recipes for that canned pork product. Refreshing the page provides me with a link to yet another delicious recipe!
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February 18th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Just noticed this myself…decided to do a search to see if anyone else had. I’d say it’s cheeky humour on the part of the Google staff somehow – their adsense software is cleverer than that!