Google to offer email with 1 GB storage
See the following NYT article http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/01/te.../01google.html
The 1 GB storage sounds awesome. The need for ads to pay for it is understandable, but I'll curb my enthusiasm until I see the final implementation. If this works out for Google, I wonder how the other webmail providers will respond.
The 1 GB storage sounds awesome. The need for ads to pay for it is understandable, but I'll curb my enthusiasm until I see the final implementation. If this works out for Google, I wonder how the other webmail providers will respond.
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I hate April Fools Day
Or Google Fools Day
Unless, Gmail is real and the April 1st thing is a plot to foil Micro$oft
Did Fox News mention it?
Originally posted by Kenneth
hope it is a real deal.
Did Fox News mention it?
Because everything they say is true?
It's April Fools. Guaranteed. Just read their article - it reads like an Onion article.
Originally posted by bauman
It's April Fools. Guaranteed. Just read their article - it reads like an Onion article.
Duh. I didn't catch onto April fools until I read MacUser UK's Apple tablet story. Google definitely cheated by posting the release a day early. It's pretty amazing that so many news outlets bought into the joke (whether consciously or not).
Escher
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...033EST0015.DTL
But there's a catch to the e-mail. Hoping to turn a profit from the service -- dubbed Gmail -- privately held Google has programmed its computers to dissect the topics being discussed in the e-mails and then deliver text-based ads related to the subjects.
For instance, an e-mail from one friend to another discussing an upcoming concert might prompt Google to include an advertising link from a ticketing agency.
"I don't think (the ads) will be annoying at all," Google co-founder Larry Page said during an interview Wednesday. "We think this will give us a business model that will work and allow us to provide a high-quality service."
Page said Gmail shouldn't raise serious privacy concerns because Google plans to closely guard the content of the e-mail messages. Ads are unlikely to accompany most e-mails, he said.
This contradicts the NY Times story which indicates that Google will not parse the e-mails to create ads. The AP also says to go to www.gmail.com to sign up. A site that doesn't work.
Originally posted by jante99
The AP also says to go to www.gmail.com to sign up. A site that doesn't work.
Works fine for me \
guys...I think this is real.
http://www.google.com/gmail/help/about.html
this is gonna be one hell of a service
Originally posted by SledgeHammer
sounds like Aprils fools day to me.
Then why does every article in Time and Newsweek mention it somewhere as "being a possibility"?
Originally posted by Placebo
Then why does every article in Time and Newsweek mention it somewhere as "being a possibility"?
Never underestimate the power of stupid in large groups!
Microsoft strikes back: Hotmail service to include 1 Terabyte of storage
Pah, one puny gigabyte? Who are they kidding? MS has got it down.
Originally posted by FormerLurker
This ain't lookin like April Fools to me....
http://www.google.com/gmail/help/about.html
http://www.google.com/mentalplex/MP_faq.html
Originally posted by Luca
You think Google is being generous? Look at Microsoft:
Microsoft strikes back: Hotmail service to include 1 Terabyte of storage
Pah, one puny gigabyte? Who are they kidding? MS has got it down.
CNN needed five persons to think that story up?