does hotmail read your email or something?

In My Humble Opinion
1

i dont know if i’m just envisioning this but it seems whenever i send an email via hotmail, in the webpage where it says ‘your message to XXX was sent’ there is always an ad to the right that relates to the topic i was discussing. Has anyone else noticed it or is this a coincidence?

for example, i was just discussing college, education, etc. and the ad was for Uni. of phoenix online. i know that i was discussing a few other things in other emails and the ads were about the same topic but i can’t remember the examples. if another comes up i will post it.

it doesn’t bother me or anything, i am just curious.

2

If it does, I’m sure it’s an automatic process, and not a human reading it.

I just might send an email or two to see if it happens to me.

3

i figured it wasn’t a human, i assumed it was a machine that picked up on key words & repeated words then used a targeted ad.

4

I think it was a coincidence. I sent two emails with subjects that lent themselves to ads, but neither resulted in a related ad.

5

The real question is… what the hell are you all doing using Hotmail? There’s about a million other free web email providers that don’t expose you to all kinds of advertising, are quicker to load and aren’t a target for anywhere near as much spam. Hotmail is the McDonalds of email.

6

You want fries with that?

:smiley:

7

I like my Hotmail account better than my fuckin ISP email. Of course some jackass took my email there and signed it up to every kiddie porn ring on the 'net.

At least Hotmail deletes 99 percent of the garbage automatically

8

I like Hotmail. It’s free, easy, I know it will be around for several years, I get almost no spam without having to use my filters. Don’t see the problem.

Back to the OP, it may just be a coincidence and you only notice it when the things line up, but pay no mind the other times.

9

I just sent a test email from my Hotmail account to my real email. I wrote the following words:

stereo
cd player
receiver
surround sound
recording
entetainment system

An advertisement for electronics came up after I sent it off. I may have to test this some more, using related and unrelated word lists, since it seems to work in the fashion described by the OP.

10

I did ery nearly the same test as dwc1970, with similar electronic words (DVD player, TV, etc) I got an ad for a university.

11

I get ads for a university no matter what my emails are about.

12

I get no spam in my Hotmail account. The only thing close to spam is the emails from Hotmail trying to convince me to spend money and get a bigger mail box.

13

Yah! I never even look at that stuff around my mailbox. Now I will…

14

Somehow my Hotmail knows I’m in Australia, as I get ads that are Australian based. I imagine it’s an IP address thingummy, a reasonably simple thing to check.

I have conditioned myself to ignore most ads, so I don’t pay attention to the subject matter usually.

15

Perhaps the scanning algorithm is detecting a certain, shall we say, lack of erudition in your epistles? :smiley: