{"id":594,"date":"2004-06-30T23:34:02","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T02:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=594"},"modified":"2004-06-30T23:34:02","modified_gmt":"2004-07-01T02:34:02","slug":"back-to-google-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=594","title":{"rendered":"Back to Google Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>E<\/span>arlier <a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/misc\/networks.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/misc\/networks.html','popup','width=317,height=298,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"sm_networks.jpg\" style=\"float:right;margin:5px\" src=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/misc\/sm_networks.jpg\" width=\"50\" height=\"47\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I was awarded another invite by Google Mail, which I delivered to the blogger known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genx40\">GenX40<\/a>. In an exchange he wondered what was amazing about this Google Mail. The 1000 MB, I answered. Plus some other things.\n<\/p>\n<p>For example, I&#8217;m amazed about the Adsense technology. In another e-mail exchange with the brother, he quickly pointed out (after I loudly wondered how many invites a user gets and if this number was related to the number of e-mails received or sent) that:\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=quote><a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/misc\/malaga um maybe not.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/misc\/malaga um maybe not.html','popup','width=715,height=277,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:right;margin:5px\"alt=\"sm_malaga um maybe not.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/misc\/sm_malaga um maybe not.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"39\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I think it is linked with the ads, so here&#8217;s one<br \/>\nvery easy for the gmail service.<\/p>\n<p>I want to travel to Granada, Spain, by airplane, how much does that<br \/>\ncost? Any cheap four stars hotels near Hospital Real?\n<\/p>\n<p>A couple of e-mails later we ended up with the results as shown on the right\/above. Naturally, Google&#8217;s algorithms aren&#8217;t optimized, so some resulting links may look off, or even funny. Imagine the future: Google News right on your side: Just when you were discussing the taste of a banana in your lunchpack with your e-mail pal, Google reports that the market for bananas has crashed. What would Superman do?<\/p>\n<p>Is this kind of technology privacy invading? I&#8217;m not on expert in that area, but I don&#8217;t truly think it is. It&#8217;s like overhearing a colleague and offering him advice not to watch that stupid movie. I&#8217;m sure the colleague would appreciate the fact that the market for bananas has crashed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier I was awarded another invite by Google Mail, which I delivered to the blogger known as GenX40. In an exchange he wondered what was amazing about this Google Mail. The 1000 MB, I answered. Plus some other things. For &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=594\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}