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James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

Friday, November 2, 2007
16 years ago2,853 views

Head on over to http://theonion.com where Gmails ad campaign can be seen, with interactive ads like this one, reminiscent of ask.com's campaign http://aycu39.webshots.com/image/34158/2004180275572977867_rs.jpg .

Other's such as "The average person spends 10.8 minutes a week deleting spam-10.8 dull minutes at that-try Gmail"

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Does that mean the average person isn't using Gmail? Are we all above average then? :-)

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

How do they know the average?

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Here's another image:
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/2580/34949430et5.png

And here's the link to the campaign:

http://www.google.com/mail/help/fightspam/getstarted.html#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-oa-na-us-onio_home_180x90&utm_medium=oa

DPic [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

or just gmail.com/fightspam

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

http://adverlicio.us/google_gmail_how_much_time_300x250

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

type in 1, it's hillarious!

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

On a side-note, I have this feeling that when you delete something without opening it, it also adds up as a "spam pattern". Because I get an email for every blog post Google publishes, and usually after checking the title I just delete it and/ or head over to the Google's Blogs page here. But after a while, all of a sudden all these messages were arriving in my spam folder. Weird... could be a coincidence though, and I'm not sure Gmail even has some "personal spam" setting (on a per user basis, that is, as opposes to requiring thresholds of say 10,000 times flagged-as-spam...).

mrbene [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

150 is max – everything beyond that gets "Oh my, our spam calculator doesn't go that high"

Rohit Srivastwa [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Upper limit to of spam count to Chitu's link is 150, try giving a bigger number :)

I agree that spam filter of Gmail is very nice and very effective, but my main concern from ages is different

Why so much spam at the first place.
I had my domain on some server before moving to Google Apps.
There I had like 1-2 spam a day, but the day i moved to Google Apps, the count increased to say 10-20 a day. All these go into my spam box but why it started at all.

Is Google trying to fill in that box to show how effective they are?

Keith Chan [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

[put at-character here] Philipp I'm pretty sure there is a personal spam setting in Gmail as some of the news subscriptions I have on my other accounts which arrive in the Inbox are filtered out as spam in my most used account. So ...

Martin Porcheron [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

It accepts decimal places. I lied, I have never received 3.14159265 spam emails, but apparently it would take me 15 seconds to delete 3 emails.

Martin Porcheron [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Wow, on a related topic, Gmail caught Google's Press Releases for Open Social and marked them as spam.

http://services.mpwebwizard.com/Spam1.png

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