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It seems like a statement in today's announcement... > Personal results in Search include... Personal answers based on info in your Google Account, like “my fl
by throwslackforce 5y ago
It seems like a statement in today's announcement...
> Personal results in Search include... Personal answers based on info in your Google Account, like “my flights” from Gmail
...makes some aggressively ambiguous wording in a previous announcement [0] apparent...
> Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change.
So I guess anyone who assumed that "Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization" meant that your Gmail was not being scanned at all was mistaken, since today's setting implies that it was still being scanned for Search personalization?
[0] https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in-the-enterprise-g-suites-gmail-and-consumer-gmail-to-more-closely-align/ https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...
- crashbunny 5y agoI vaguely remember years ago reading something about google saying they won't scan gmail because they might unwittingly break some law that is meant to protects kids on the internet. Maybe if they knew your age and you were of age they scanned...
- jvolkman 5y agoWere there people that thought the latter? Certainly there's still an expectation that things like spam filtering work, which require scanning.
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- mgraczyk 5y agoThere is a search bar in Gmail that can be used to search the content of your emails. I think most technical people who have used Gmail realize that it wouldn't be possible for that feature to work without something, somewhere reading your emails to index them.