Google Apps Hacks

GOOGLE APPS HACKS

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Gmail displays

advertisements that

are targeted to your

emails. This means

that when you or your

friends talk about,

say, indoor sundials (a

special device utilizing

a rotating lamp to show

the time even when the

sun’s not shining!), the

advertisement next to

the message may read

“Buy cheap indoor

sundials” with a link

to the sponsor. When

Gmail was launched,

this stirred up some

controversy because

people realized that

Google’s machines

would read their email

in order to target the

ads. The truth is, all

web-based email clients

must access your

wHat’s witH

all tHese ads?

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Gmail made quite a splash when it arrived on the scene on April 1, 2004, not only because of its then

1 GB of storage, which many people rst believed was an April Fool’s hoax (Microsoft’s Hotmail, in

comparison, had only 2 MB at the time), but also because the interface reinvented some aspects of

what we usually expect from email clients. Today, Gmail has:

A conversation view that sorts replies to your mails into a single thread.

Built-in chat functionality, allowing you to switch between email and Google Chat.

An inbo ...