On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Sumant Srivathsan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can ads reveal anything about the source of the email? Absolutely not. I > have a feeling you just missed a cue in the email's content that could have > triggered the ad. > > Disclosure: I used to work in Google's AdWords program until 2007. > i have few emails from this particular address .. and nothing in them to suggest place / origin... what i do have is other correspondence with this person sent from another gmail address (with the person's actual name) which contain references to places, names etc.. my thought was that the adwords program was connecting the persons email addresses to each other / and associating text ads on that basis ...(connecting on the basis that ...if the anonymous address has the actual email address as a 'secondary email' ... )
