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la_poubelle and I have been experimenting with seeing what Gmail will give us ads for based on what words we use in our emails. Gmail has a program that scans for certain words and gives you related text ads on the side -- like, if you're talking about the GMAT, it'll give you ads for GMAT prep courses. The program supposedly won't put ads in if it detects certain inappropriate words, like, you know, virtually any word that comes out of my mouth on a regular basis, and words that might indicate that ads would be really fucking inappropriate, like, say, "my dog died."So we were debating what ads certain foul words might get us and look what popped up on the side:
Taboo word causes Scrabble buzz
I think they're on to us!
