Off Topic: Google Mail (GMAIL)

[Boscoh]

If this isn't a really good April Fool's joke, this sounds like it's going to be pretty cool.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1559465,00.asp


MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Search engine Google Inc. announced Wednesday it would launch a free, Web-based e-mail service to compete against popular services from rivals Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

Google's service, called "Gmail," will include a built-in search function that will let people search every e-mail they've ever sent or received.

According to company executives, users will be able to type in keywords to sort e-mails or find old missives. And it will come with 1 gigabyte of free storage ? more than 100 times what some popular rivals offer and enough to hold 500,000 pages of e-mail.

But to finance the service, Google will display advertising links tied to the topics discussed within the e-mails. For instance, an e-mail inquiring about an upcoming concert might include an ad from a ticket agency.

http://www.google.com/gmail

 

[Cheetah8799]

it's a joke, according to fark.com.

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=896245

 

[Boscoh]

Originally posted by: Cheetah8799
it's a joke, according to fark.com.

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=896245

Hmmm....doesn't appear it's a hoax according to this:

http://money.cnn.com/2004/04/01/technology/google_email/index.htm

 

[JackMDS]

Of course you need 500,000 pages of e-mail.

How else they would have space for all the Junk Mail that they will Send your way.

 

[spidey07]

this is really, really, really funny.

Way to go google!

 

[Stifko]

Originally posted by: money.cnn.com
Mountain View, Calif.-based Google also will provide one gigabyte of storage to free account holders, far more than that offered by Yahoo and Microsoft's Internet unit....

my free yahoo acc't now has 25MB of space for mail, I guess they upped it to counter the huge capacity of google's gmail. Before I only had a measley 6MB. My newer yahoo acc't still only has 6 megs.