&gt;I’d driven to meet a friend at an art gallery in Hollywood, my first visit to a gallery in years. The next morning, in my inbox, several spam e-mails urged me to invest in art. That was an easy one to figure out: I’d typed the name of the gallery into Google Maps.<p>I don&#x27;t see how the author makes the connection here.<p>How does searching for an art gallery on Google Maps translate into spam emails? Is he accusing Google of selling your email address and search information to spammers?