Review

Read My Mail, Please: The silly privacy fears about Google's e-mail service - Paul Boutin
Slate - April 15, 2004
http://slate.msn.com/id/2098946
"Gmail's ads are text-only, in the same spartan format used for the ads next to Google's search engine results. In my tests, a mailing-list discussion about in-ear headphones was flanked by terse ads for headphones and audio stores. Press releases about developments in the Wi-Fi industry were accompanied not by ads, but by links to 'related pages' from Google's search engine. Social chit-chat, such as 'let's catch up' or 'what are you doing Friday,' got no ads or links at all. ... Best of all, my outgoing messages are free of the appended shills tacked on by other services."