Google to offer gigabyte of free e-mail

Ev!L-aLphA · Apr 1, 2004, 03:41 AM

"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."

Source: Neowin

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Apr 1, 2004, 03:53 AM

sniff sniff

APRIL FOOLS FROM GOOGLE!

Judas · Apr 1, 2004, 05:27 AM

yeppers..

Saint_K · Apr 1, 2004, 06:13 AM

Thats what i thought so too

**dj_stick** · Apr 1, 2004, 06:33 AM

when i saw 1GB my first reaction was "F*CK" - then i remembered what day it was

Judas · Apr 1, 2004, 06:56 AM

it just turned 3 minutes past 12:00am.... happy aprils fools...

The_Neon_Cowboy · Apr 1, 2004, 08:21 AM

no its all over the news

and google allready has mass sortahe and caces of the web link no one else, a gb is nothing to them

**MIG-31** · Apr 1, 2004, 09:14 AM

can't be april fools as cnet has this posted 31st march.

germanjulian · Apr 1, 2004, 02:57 PM

weird isnt it...  is in their main page. mhhh all over the news. maybe you can have a 1GB of storage but can only send 2MB attachments and receive 2MB.... so gonna take a while till u fill up 1GB. storage is cheap remember

Apr 1, 2004, 03:41 AM	#1
Ev!L-aLphA \| n f e c t e D Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: California Posts: 4,111 Rep Power: 0	Google to offer gigabyte of 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." Source: Neowin

Apr 1, 2004, 03:53 AM	#2
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germanjulian Back in London Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: London Posts: 1,797 Rep Power: 0	weird isnt it... <!-- There is no secret html on this page --> is in their main page. mhhh all over the news. maybe you can have a 1GB of storage but can only send 2MB attachments and receive 2MB.... so gonna take a while till u fill up 1GB. storage is cheap remember __________________ /\|\ Asus P5W DH Deluxe, Intel C2D E6600, 2GB Corsair XMS2-6400C4 DDR2, E-VGA GeForce 7800 GT, Creative X-Fi Extreme Music, 500GB Seagate 7200.10 SATA, Lian Li PC-V1100 Aluminum Case Black, etc. http://germanjulian.com /\|\

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Saint_K InSaNe Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Den haag, netherlands Posts: 836 Rep Power: 0	Thats what i thought so too