[DEFINITIVE] Gmail queue !

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Everyone is patiently awaiting, let the new gogglers get invite so they can invite the rest of the people on the list.

I think we'll have more than enough invites to clear the list once those who have been invited in the last several days start getting invites and donating them back to this forum. Also, we want to make sure that people aren't becoming members of Neowin just to get a Gmail account, which isn't fair. The two month requirement makes it so that even if you join purely for an account, you'll probably start posting and contributing to Neowin before you get one.

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Also, aren't ads supposed to appear on the bottom of the e-mail? So far, none of the e-mails I've sent have had any ads, which is nice. Has Google temporarily pulled them because of criticism, or is it not using them because the beta testing is so limited right now?

I've only just had Gmail for just over 3days now and the mails that I've sent have had nothing attached to them.

I think what Google was going on about with regards to adverts is the ones that appear to the right of the message when you read it. They appear just like the standard Google Text ads that appear on websites. Althought the message itself has to consist of more than a few lines before an advert appear otherwise there's not enough text to scan thru to show relevent ads for.

I'm not even sure it was Google's intention to actually ADD the adverts to the messages. Did you read it somewhere that they would? Or was it just how you perceived it to be from reading the uproar of backlash that ensued when Google annoucned their service all those months back? :)

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,Jun 18 2004, 21:51] I've only just had Gmail for just over 3days now and the mails that I've sent have had nothing attached to them.

I think what Google was going on about with regards to adverts is the ones that appear to the right of the message when you read it. They appear just like the standard Google Text ads that appear on websites. Althought the message itself has to consist of more than a few lines before an advert appear otherwise there's not enough text to scan thru to show relevent ads for.

I'm not even sure it was Google's intention to actually ADD the adverts to the messages. Did you read it somewhere that they would? Or was it just how you perceived it to be from reading the uproar of backlash that ensued when Google annoucned their service all those months back? :)

I just heard that Google would deliver "context-sensitive" ads with their service, and assumed that they would use MSN-style messages. Maybe I'll try sending some longer messages, and see how it turns out.

Edit: apparently you're right; the messages aren't put into sent messages, but are displayed to the right side of received messages (though they're not very accurate; when I sent myself an English essay, it gave me links to news stories about Guatemala :laugh: ).

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John_da_leecher

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If someone could send me an invite I would be very grateful, I have nothing to trade, I just really want to see what GMail is like and try all the features in it and also have a good site that had a gig limit. If u need an email to send the invite to plz send it to [email protected]

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If someone could send me an invite I would be very grateful, I have nothing to trade, I just really want to see what GMail is like and try all the features in it and also have a good site that had a gig limit. If u need an email to send the invite to plz send it to [email protected]

PM the person above you to get added to the list, you don't need to offer anything (except maybe invites to others when you get them).

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you're right; the messages aren't put into sent messages, but are displayed to the right side of received messages (though they're not very accurate; when I sent myself an English essay, it gave me links to news stories about Guatemala  :laugh: ).

As mentioned previously, it's the same technology Google use for the Text Ads service for websites, most likely slightly tweaked to be a touch more sensitive.

A good example of such an Ad would be at the VERY top of this page. Currently I see a Google text ad for "Ecommerce Web Hosting" and "MySQL Hosting". No mention of hosting or sql in this thread but NW possibly selected options to *prefer* (but not limit it) to display this type of Ad since most people on NW would be talking about web related stuff.

With email, people could be talking about ANYTHING and there is no preferential setting and so it's entirely up to Google's sensing tech to see what it can pick out from your email's content. I'm sure Google are working on improvements to show more accurate Ads in order to increase hit rate for click-thrus... since the money generated from this will be what subsidises the runnings costs involved of an email service, especially one with such large inboxes per user :)

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Not quite sure how the invites work, but I've gotten 11 lately. The Gmail account is getting e-mail from my old school account (forwarding now that I've graduated) so it's getting about 50 spam mails a day :rofl:. The spam filter works great, BTW, but I've been under the assumption that the traffic has caused me to get more e-mails, since I've had the account for a while, and never started getting them until I forwared my school account there.

As for the ads, yeah, I think they're just going to be off to the right there. Google prides itself on its clean interface.

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Tech_8356

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aight, so threetonesun (major props dude!) got me setup and I really want to repay the favor by sharing invites, but I haven't received any yet even though my account is quite active...any idea on an ETA for those extra accounts?

Thanks ~ Tech_8356

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