**GOOGLE** - Sign up for GMAIL?

[Abhi]

Wow

 

[LordSnailz]

dead already?

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: SSP
Haha losers, I get 7MB with my free Yahoo account (referring to the 4mb limit to new users the article talks about).

<--Old school yahoo user.

I get 25mb, free. They must love me or something.

 

[Qacer]

Who's April? Here pics on Gmail.com

 

[kennyG]

Originally posted by: Qacer
Who's April? Here pics on Gmail.com

Yeah I saw dat too..must be a google programer or employee's girly ..she's cute a hottie for sure

 

[warcrow]

Just thought I would collect some of the interesting (mostly negative) comments in the thread so far. I find "fumbduck" the most amusing

Originally posted by: whitecloak
April Fool prank.

Originally posted by: Shockwave
A gig? No way that'll fly very long I assure you that

Originally posted by: Crazyfool
This has to be a joke. Who wants 500 times the spam they get from a hotmail account

Originally posted by: ggavinmoss
Totally an April Fools prank.

Originally posted by: Passions
Can you imagine how many servers they need to service 1gb per account? TOTALLY APRIL FOOLS JOKE!

Originally posted by: fumbduck
Everyone fell for google's deception.

Of course it is an april fools prank. Say 1,000,000 people signed up, that would mean 1,000,000 gigs, which would be impossible.

Google IS the internet. Google is becoming synonymous with the internet. They got reuters and cnn and whoever else to play along, but it is all one big April Fools joke.

Now they have everyone's attention, so when Gmail really does come out, everyone will know about it and it will overtake the internet's leading free e-mail provider as well (hotmail).

Very smart move by google, and you all fell for it.

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
I can;t believe educated people fell for this

Originally posted by: Sid59
SURPRISE! JOKE!

Originally posted by: Ime
Man, Google is totally owning these media outlets. They'll believe anything they are told! LOL!

Best Google April Fools Joke, evar!

Originally posted by: QacerWho's April? Here pics on Gmail.com

Originally posted by: Tetsuo
I call April Fools/q]

 

[warcrow]

*BuMp* for love!

 

[boomdart]

My name:

James Garrin

My e-mail address

james@garrin.net

I use that one for school/business... otherwise it's boomdart@hotmail.com

 

[Tanner]

so, did anyone GET this account yet?

 

[MaxDSP]

fumbduck and Goosemaster got 0wned hardcore

 

[Shockwave]

Warcrow = teh dumbness.

I said it wont fly for LONG. You know why? Assume an average of 15 million users. Now figure out how much storage space Google would need to maintain those accounts with the 1 gig their going to be allowing per account.
You think Google is gonna offer that for free? Not very damned long.

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: Shockwave
Warcrow = teh dumbness.

I said it wont fly for LONG. You know why? Assume an average of 15 million users. Now figure out how much storage space Google would need to maintain those accounts with the 1 gig their going to be allowing per account.
You think Google is gonna offer that for free? Not very damned long.

Google uses inexpensive clusters of regular IDE drives, it doesn't cost them squat. The ad revenue will be extremely lucrative.

I know the peeps @ google. When google was a startup they were in the cage next to ours at exodus. Their clusters were packed so tight it caused a 12 degree increase in our cage temperature. The hard drives were sticky taped to the top of the motherboards, they were so heavy it made them bend. The a/c wasn't ducted right so exodus wound up cutting a giant hole in the wall and used an external a/c from a big rig.

If you were a terrorist you could have just climbed in the tubing and landed in our area.

 

[Tanner]

so, did anyone get it...not to keep this on topic or anything just wonderin

 

[warcrow]

Originally posted by: Sifl

Originally posted by: Shockwave
Warcrow = teh dumbness.

I said it wont fly for LONG. You know why? Assume an average of 15 million users. Now figure out how much storage space Google would need to maintain those accounts with the 1 gig their going to be allowing per account.
You think Google is gonna offer that for free? Not very damned long.

Google uses inexpensive clusters of regular IDE drives, it doesn't cost them squat. The ad revenue will be extremely lucrative.

I know the peeps @ google. When google was a startup they were in the cage next to ours at exodus. Their clusters were packed so tight it caused a 12 degree increase in our cage temperature. The hard drives were sticky taped to the top of the motherboards, they were so heavy it made them bend. The a/c wasn't ducted right so exodus wound up cutting a giant hole in the wall and used an external a/c from a big rig.

If you were a terrorist you could have just climbed in the tubing and landed in our area.

shockwave, you can act immature all you wish (name calling) But we'll just see......You think Google will allocate 1 GB to each sign-up from the beginning? Nope. The disk space algorithm will dynamically accomodate *UP* to 1 GB. That means with if 3 peeps have 3MB, 30Mb, or 300MB....thats only a total of 333Mb, not 3GB. I shouldnt have to tell you this

 

[Calin]

Originally posted by: NFS4
They should have called it GSpot

You, Anandtech forums contributors, always make my day a smiling one

Calin