Microsoft's 'Gmail Man' Ad

That was great! A little disturbing about the realities of my gmail account, but hey I'm a PSN customer.
I'd rather the Gmail Man be looking at all my information than Anon.
That little girl made the comercial. Well her and "He's got his nose in every colon"
 
Google defense force isn't going to like this one - damn - bit. :p
 
Haha, that was pretty good.

I don't mind contextual ads though. They're more useful than the generic ads they replace.
 
The ad seems to completely ignore the fact that anyone using GMail had this explained to them before clicking OK. The servers and bandwidth have to be paid for somehow.
 
phobos512 said:
The ad seems to completely ignore the fact that anyone using GMail had this explained to them before clicking OK. The servers and bandwidth have to be paid for somehow.
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You read that? I don't think I've met anyone like you before!

:)
 
I agree with what is said about Google and their practices, but how does Microsoft Office 365 solve this? I stopped paying attention to Microsoft Office past 2007.
 
The ad is accurate, but I fail to see the point. You can't put the genie back in the bottle... as much as I want to add ads for Tampax and Depends diapers, I don't. Sure, zero ads would be nice, but that's just not realistic.

The days of advertisers paying millions to spam ads out at hundreds of millions of people are nearly over, and good riddance.

Full disclosure: I use gmail and have since beta, and for everything. Otherwise, at work I'm actually our consulting company's Microsoft online cloud services consultant. I know just about everything there is to know about BPOS/O365, and I won't be swapping to it for personal email anytime soon, although there is certainly an argument to be made for a corporation to use it over google apps.
 
Ashbringer said:
I agree with what is said about Google and their practices, but how does Microsoft Office 365 solve this? I stopped paying attention to Microsoft Office past 2007.
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Totally I mean what noobs still use MS Office?
:rolleyes:
 
Looks like Microsoft took their ads out of the Apple playbook.
 
"Google officials want it known, for the record, that there aren’t ads in Google Apps for Business. “But admins can choose to enable the ads if they want- some find them useful,” a Google spokesperson noted."
 
For me there has almost never been a time when a Microsoft product or service was the best solution to a problem.

Plus why would i ditch gmail when its pretty much accessible from anywhere, has lots of storage space, lots of neat features, free and I have been using it almost since it came out
 
shrug... I don't have a problem with gmail, it's not like i store sensitive info there, and I don't think I've ever noticed ads there, well, ok, maybe once or twice, but they are easy enough to ignore.
 
TheBuzzer said:
"Google officials want it known, for the record, that there aren’t ads in Google Apps for Business. “But admins can choose to enable the ads if they want- some find them useful,” a Google spokesperson noted."
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But are they reading your mail? That's the big question.

While they don't show ads to businesses in their emails, they could make a lot of money snooping into business emails for what businesses spend their money on, or even innovative strategies.
 
Brought to you by the same people who admitted using Google to help Bing search.

Let me translate this for you. "Oh my God how does Google get away with crawling through people's email for targeting advertising and we didn't we think of that first."
 
I belong to the SCA and often get emails regarding Vikings, medieval terms and, chivalry. It is apparent that Gmail man has no clue what any of the words mean. I hope Gmail Man reads more of my emails on the path to enlightenment.
 
Ashbringer said:
I agree with what is said about Google and their practices, but how does Microsoft Office 365 solve this? I stopped paying attention to Microsoft Office past 2007.
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Ummm...you get what you pay for? :eek:
 
Sorry, was it a good video? IE blue screened when I tried to watch it. So I rebooted and then it said something about the registry being corrupted. So I tried to reset it to an earlier date and found out some virus were hiding in it. So after the normal Fdisk format and reinstall of windows I am now back but have to wait for everything to update.
:rolleyes:
 
skinnydaddy said:
Sorry, was it a good video? IE blue screened when I tried to watch it. So I rebooted and then it said something about the registry being corrupted. So I tried to reset it to an earlier date and found out some virus were hiding in it. So after the normal Fdisk format and reinstall of windows I am now back but have to wait for everything to update.
:rolleyes:
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You'll have to come up with sopmething a bit more witty if you're a Google employee!
 
Fascinating, but the reality of "G-mail" main is just an automated algorithm, it's a cold emotionless program that just picks ads for a banner.

Of course, I can imagine the emotional embarrassment of someone seeing an ad that hits a nerve creating such colorful images in the mind of some recipients lol :D
 
skinnydaddy said:
Sorry, was it a good video? IE blue screened when I tried to watch it. So I rebooted and then it said something about the registry being corrupted. So I tried to reset it to an earlier date and found out some virus were hiding in it. So after the normal Fdisk format and reinstall of windows I am now back but have to wait for everything to update.
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Time to move off of Wind 98?
 
LeninGHOLA said:
You'll have to come up with sopmething a bit more witty if you're a Google employee!
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Your right but i'm not. Sorry you only get the wit with pay. I'd add a paypal donations link but that might push the joke to far. Then again being unemployed....
I could also point out firefox has spell check. :D
 
skinnydaddy said:
Your right but i'm not. Sorry you only get the wit with pay. I'd add a paypal donations link but that might push the joke to far. Then again being unemployed....
I could also point out firefox has spell check. :D
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But not grammar check ;)
 
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