Every wonder how Gmail’s spam filter does such a great job at catching real spam while minimizing false positives? Google put together a pretty nice video (love the bad music and bad acting) outlining the basic concepts behind how their spam filter works. One thing I didn’t realize… they use optical character recognition to scan inline images to catch image spam. Nice!
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Via: Official Gmail Blog
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