Gmail
Apr 14th 2004, 2:24 pm
#1
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Gmail
Sorry if this has been posted before but I haven't been near my 'puter for more than a fortnight. Google announced on 1st April that they were going to start up a new free email service for anyone who wants to sign up. They promise oodles more storage space than the other main free providers such as Yahoo, MSN etc and less spam.
People thought it was an April Fool's Joke initially but they are deadly serious and they are going to start up later in the year (no exact rollout dates yet). Their research shows that emailing is the number one use of the internet and searching is number two. Having dominated number two in 5 or 6 short years they are obviously looking for growth elsewhere. For anyone who is interested you can sign up for further updates and find out more at:
http://www.google.com/gmail/help/about.html
I'm an increasingly indundated with spam Yahoo user, hence my interest. Catchy name too - just as Google has entered the language it won't be long before people are G rather than E mailing!
OzTennis
People thought it was an April Fool's Joke initially but they are deadly serious and they are going to start up later in the year (no exact rollout dates yet). Their research shows that emailing is the number one use of the internet and searching is number two. Having dominated number two in 5 or 6 short years they are obviously looking for growth elsewhere. For anyone who is interested you can sign up for further updates and find out more at:
http://www.google.com/gmail/help/about.html
I'm an increasingly indundated with spam Yahoo user, hence my interest. Catchy name too - just as Google has entered the language it won't be long before people are G rather than E mailing!
OzTennis
Apr 14th 2004, 3:25 pm
#2
The Outback Beast
Joined: Mar 2004
Location: Perth
Posts: 292
Re: Gmail
Brilliant!!!!!!!, could be the end for Hotmail, 1Gig instead of a poxy 1 Meg, bring it on 
Apr 14th 2004, 3:55 pm
#3
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Joined: Oct 2003
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 151
Re: Gmail
Originally posted by OzTennis
Sorry if this has been posted before but I haven't been near my 'puter for more than a fortnight. Google announced on 1st April that they were going to start up a new free email service for anyone who wants to sign up. They promise oodles more storage space than the other main free providers such as Yahoo, MSN etc and less spam.
People thought it was an April Fool's Joke initially but they are deadly serious and they are going to start up later in the year (no exact rollout dates yet). Their research shows that emailing is the number one use of the internet and searching is number two. Having dominated number two in 5 or 6 short years they are obviously looking for growth elsewhere. For anyone who is interested you can sign up for further updates and find out more at:
http://www.google.com/gmail/help/about.html
I'm an increasingly indundated with spam Yahoo user, hence my interest. Catchy name too - just as Google has entered the language it won't be long before people are G rather than E mailing!
OzTennis
Sorry if this has been posted before but I haven't been near my 'puter for more than a fortnight. Google announced on 1st April that they were going to start up a new free email service for anyone who wants to sign up. They promise oodles more storage space than the other main free providers such as Yahoo, MSN etc and less spam.
People thought it was an April Fool's Joke initially but they are deadly serious and they are going to start up later in the year (no exact rollout dates yet). Their research shows that emailing is the number one use of the internet and searching is number two. Having dominated number two in 5 or 6 short years they are obviously looking for growth elsewhere. For anyone who is interested you can sign up for further updates and find out more at:
http://www.google.com/gmail/help/about.html
I'm an increasingly indundated with spam Yahoo user, hence my interest. Catchy name too - just as Google has entered the language it won't be long before people are G rather than E mailing!
OzTennis
Apr 14th 2004, 4:02 pm
#4
What's happening dudes?
Joined: Mar 2004
Location: Bayside Brisbane
Posts: 20,647
Re: Gmail
Originally posted by helenmaine
We looked into this, but apparently they are planning on scanning the content of all messages and then using this to develop targetted advertising. I'm not too sure that I would like this.....
We looked into this, but apparently they are planning on scanning the content of all messages and then using this to develop targetted advertising. I'm not too sure that I would like this.....
