[prezjordan]

They left out the part where they index your emails and choose items you agree with over items you don't :)

[hurstdog]

I think you're joking, but just for those that don't think that, we don't actually do that.

[will_brown]

The following is direct from Google's Security and Privacy:

"In order to provide some of the core features in Google Apps products, our automated systems will scan and index some user data. For example:

-Email is scanned so we can perform spam filtering and virus detection.

-Priority Inbox, a Gmail feature, scans email message to identify which messages are considered important and which are considered not important.

-If you are using Google Apps (free edition), email is scanned so we can display contextually relevant advertising in some circumstances.

-Some user data, such as documents and email messages, are scanned and indexed so your users can privately search for information in their own Google Apps accounts.

*Google Apps data is not part of the general google.com index, except when users choose to publish information publicly."

[kappaloris]

then how can you scroogle and boobble people without those informations?

[alan_cx]

Where is the stuff about the creepy invasion and abuse of our privacy?

I know, I know, you don't do that. Nope, no one does. Everything is fine and dandy. Smile every one, no problem here.

[Stealth-]

There definitely is a form of a search bubble though, right?

[anoncow]

I don't remember if hotmail used to run ads.

[snowwrestler]

It did and they were display ads. Incredibly distracting.

At one point the "homepage" of Hotmail was a huge ad space, stories from MSN, and a tiny link to "Inbox."

The new Outlook is so much better. If Hotmail had evolved that way earlier, I would not have switched to Gmail.

[anoncow]

So it is a bit hypocritical of MS talking about ads in gmail. But again where those ads contextual?

[snowwrestler]

The "Scroogled" campaign has nothing to do with products or customers; the point is to broaden the PR base for Microsoft's ongoing campaign to convince the feds to initiate anti-trust proceedings against Google. That is why they hired a political PR executive to create the campaign.

[weareconvo]

Grammatically, that makes no sense :)