Jie Li said: about ads...
I does make difference for me, because now I can choose I need these ads or not. Blocking them on my PC makes no difference to google, I actually never click them, or maybe one or two times a week.
Yikes! That's about ten times more often than I click an ad. But that's on the Google site itself. I don't use gmail. I'm in some lists that run on Yahoo-Groups, which includes adds in every message, but I never click those either. Mostly that's because I've never seen an ad for anthing that interests me. Yahoo must screen their advertisers: "You have something to sell that might interest Kevin? Sorry. We can't accept your ad." :-) The ads that Google puts up on the right-hand frame when you run a search -- I've found that the first one occasionally bears some resemblance to what I'm looking for, the second is marginal, and the third is always fiendishly, stupidly unrelated (porn or something). So they get no click from me. Google still gets paid by eBay and Amazon and the other advertisers for the space and exposure, whether ads are clicked or not. Kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it.