Google To Offer 1gig Email
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| Google, the company that made off with the search market, is setting its sights on free e-mail.
The company, based in Mountain View, Calif., on Wednesday will launch a test with about 1,000 invited guests to try out a new e-mail service called "Gmail."
Google, which made its name in search but has added numerous services, such as a news aggregation page and a newsgroup interface, says that Gmail is search-based e-mail.
Like Yahoo Mail and MSN Hotmail, Gmail will let users search through their e-mail. Unlike those competitors, though, Google will offer enough storage so that the average e-mail account holder will never have to delete messages.
Hotmail currently offers 2MB of free e-mail storage. Yahoo offers 4MB. Gmail will dwarf those offerings with a 1GB storage limit.
Google plans to make money from the service by inserting advertisements into messages based in part on their content, effectively extending its AdWords program for presenting contextual ads in Web pages to e-mail.
"The idea is that your mail can stay in there forever," said Wayne Rosing, vice president of engineering at Google. "You can always index it, always search it, and always find things from the past."
When asked whether Gmail represented further evidence that Google is muscling in on the turf of Yahoo, MSN and other Web portals, Rosing demurred.
"The way we'd like to say it is that part of our mission is to organize and present all the world's information, and e-mail's part of that information that currently is not well organized. That is the rubric under which we offer this." |
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| I'm actually not sure if this is an april fools joke.. it's popped up on so many news sites now.. |
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| i hope its true.. google is so cool |
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| the press release IS marked April 1st tho....
i have a strong feeling it's fake. |
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| it IS fake. |
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| so is my hair peice, but i say it's saigon |
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| bastards! |
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| so *was* it fake or not? |
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| YES. jesus. |
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| why the immediate yes? |
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| why the SHUT UP IAN! |
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| now i'm sure, it is real. |
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| it IS real |
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| *can't wait for it to go live* |
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| 1000 MEGA BYTES!!!!!muhahahahaha! ok I'm getting an account! |
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| google super friends forever guys!
beuweahaemahuahuauhahuaehaea! |
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| it's not out yet.
soon my precious.. soon |
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| where did you get this screenshot from? |
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| i know someone who knows someone who's in on the beta. |
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| oh....u sounded like Snoop from that scene in Starsky and Hutch right there |
Google To Offer 1gig Email
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