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."
News source: C|Net News.com
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."
News source: C|Net News.com
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APRIL FOOLS!
Just try to sign up (at the very bottom of the about gmail page) - you get Requested URL Not Found
APRIL FOOLS!
Just try to sign up (at the very bottom of the about gmail page) - you get Requested URL Not Found
Eh? To me, it showed this page after registering:
http://www.google.com/gmail/help/about_confirm.html
although it may be true so right on google! i can't wait!
also... keep checking http://gmail.google.com/ for updates!
GJ
Last modified: March 31, 2004, 3:57 PM PST
It's not from April, the first.
Google to offer free e-mail
Date: 01/04/04
Lookie here! The original source. Dated what? April 1!
The first three lines are as follows. Now common,
User Complaint About Existing Services Leads Google to Create Search-Based Webmail
Search is Number Two Online Activity – Email is Number One; "Heck, Yeah," Say Google Founders
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 1, 2004 UTC
Is this some kind of April fool joke. I kinda have the feeling it is.
should it be true though, GOODBYE Hotmail!
http://www.gmail.com = http://gmail.google.com = http://www.google.com/gmail/
also read http://www.google.com/gmail/help/about.html for info
*Edit*
also found this in their TOU: http://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount
too bad im not 'invited to test' :'(
Last edited by 49168 on 01 Apr 2004 - 07:03
Even yahoo, msn reduced the mail storage and charge for additiona storage space to cut cost and to be able to sustain the business.
I still say it's an april fool joke.
They're probably setting 1 GB as a limit since they're using a huge shared space and assume few will actually fill up the 1 GB.
also found this in their TOU: http://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount
too bad im not 'invited to test' :'(
That's just the login for google accounts, nothing to do with Gmail.
omg that's the first major site i've seen that officially recognises Firefox as a browser
Google has a long histroy of april fools- remember pigeion rank. Becuase i see no other april fools on there site i reckon this must be it.
it's even serious..... with disclamers and all
but if the account would allow something in the range of 10MB to a max of 20MB and all they did was do ad-links in the html text of web pages. then i would be ok with it. i figure the technology isn't that private to begin with, email i mean. and simply making a service that looks for the word, lets say "sony tv" and then links that word to a web site, isn't that bad as long as it's free, allows bigger file attachments and a bigger account then hotmail does. but they should also have a paid for service too without the ads.
anyways, those are my thoughts. but i think it's an april fools joke anyways.
nice try but tooo unbelievable.
They've already bought www.gmail.com from a former owner and registered international domains like gmail.se for example. You can subscribe to their Gmail news letter and it seems professional. There's terms of use documents and an informative FAQ, etc etc. Cnet covered these news back in March.
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Last edited by 25854 on 01 Apr 2004 - 15:43
They registered the GMail domains in 1995
CNet have also reported on this last year
Very cheap disk space at the moment.
Read the comments over at slashdot about it, and i'm sure you will change your mind. Mine did
gmail might be real, but the 1GB bit is April fools.
this is certainly not that funny...
and if it is indeed a joke, the joke is on hotmail and yahoo mail coz google will have made them worry. and worry big.
and about 1GB. How many users will use that much. its there for ur use. not everyone will use it. so that is not an issue.
NIGHTMARES for Microsoft and Yahoo. They might just lose the next big thing...
It was reported over a month ago that Google would offer free e-mail.
The 1GB of space thing could be, but you never know.A post about the Google e-mail.
well if you look at it. yahoo offers other areas of storage and also free web hosting which must need huge amounts of storage capacity. Geocities, Yahoo Briefcase, yahoo communities, etc....
whereas google only offer all their available space for email. but like most of the other sites they can reduce it later on after they get huge amount of people to move over to theirs. most likely they will reduce it a year later to a reasonable amount but probably still more than the rest.
http://www.google.com/gmail/help/terms_of_use.html
We've received an overwhelming response to this opportunity and are not
currently accepting additional resumes. We will, however, keep your
information on file should we have an opening in the future. At the
current staffing levels, we anticipate that we may need additional
applicants on or around April Fool's Day in 2104. Until then, we
appreciate your interest in Google and your taking the time to write us.
Sincerely,
The Googlunar Recruiting Team
I'm going to stake my reputation on this and say that this story's true. If it's fake, I'll eat my hard-drive.
could you post a picture while doing that. I'd love to see you eating your own hard-drive. I'll even send you som pepper and salt.
If it is not true, i think they will get in a lot of trouble for this one....
head advertising, lol
Do you have EXABYTES Like the Governement?!
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