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13 January 2012

Random Acts of Google What on earth does it mean when Google suggests to me at the top of my Gmail page that:

"You can make a lovely hat out of previously-used aluminum foil" →[More:]

????

What have they glimpsed in my character to
make them suggest this?

post by: dorgla at: 13:34 | 11 comments

They're on a recycling promotion kick. They used to actually spell that out as such, but not so much lately.

posted by Melismata 13 January | 13:41

A recent ad on gmail promoted office space in the Netherlands to me. No damn rhyme or reason, as far as I can tell.

posted by msali 13 January | 14:40

Mine keeps the gov't and the aliens (actually the same thing) from reading my mind.

YOU HEAR ME, BASTARDOS?! NYAAAH NYAAH NYAAH!

posted by shane 13 January | 15:47

I never notice mine, but I just noticed the ad today is for a Grow Your Own supply store. I'm a little bothered.

posted by Miko 13 January | 15:50

Does this make you paranoid? Could Google be monitoring your brainwaves? Maybe you should make some tin-foil headgear.

posted by Splunge 13 January | 17:00

I feel sort of deprived that all I get is invitations to send a massage [sic]. I want a tinfoil hat too!

posted by Susurration 13 January | 18:06

Mine just offered to teach me English as a foreign language.

It also let me know that some weird hotmail address was my secondary email address. Not bloody likely! Dorgla, thanks for making me look at my account.

posted by deborah 13 January | 18:26

Mine invites me to apply for a job at Subway.
:(

posted by rmless2 13 January | 20:03

I just got offered a last minute MLK Weekend getaway in NH. That's reasonable.

posted by Miko 13 January | 21:00

I read all my email, including Gmail, through Mozilla Thunderbird, but if I did go to the Gmail site, I'm sure it would offer me a business opportunity in Kenya (because I commented in the Evil Google in Kenya thread).

posted by oneswellfoop 13 January | 23:25

Huh. Right now they're trying to send me to a police auction site. I cannot even begin to imagine what caused that.

posted by Elsa 14 January | 20:55

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