This better not be an April fools Joke!! :)
http://gmail.google.com/
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This better not be an April fools Joke!! :)
http://gmail.google.com/
Hope not, I just signed up to be on their list.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diver01
Me too...
Same here, it looks like it's at least worth trying.
Not a hoax: http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusi...lIsNoHoax.html
This was the April 1st prank: Google Jobs
What interests me is now the Google watch: http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusi...Debuts414.html
http://www.searchenginelowdown.com/google-pda-watch.gif
Seriously.
Cool. Now bring on the IPO already!
Yeah, but do you really want your e-mail available to Google so they can search it and give you "relevant" advertising? There's no privacy here whatsover...you're opening up everything someone sends you to be be searched, albeit supposedly only for you, so they can target you with sponsor ads. Even if it is supposedly only their computers doing the searching, I have a hard time willingly giving away that right.
Oh they can search my spam all they like ;)
Too true.Quote:
Originally Posted by NooNoo
Privacy advocates are concerned that there's one big flaw with Google Inc.'s free e-mail service: The company plans to read the messages.
LA TIMES reporting on Friday: The Internet search firm insists that it needs to know what's in the e-mails that pass through its system -- so that they can be sprinkled with advertisements Google thinks are relevant. After all, revenue from those targeted ads will pay for the Gmail service, which began a limited test Thursday, offering up to 500 times as much e-mail storage as competing Web e-mail programs from Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
The TIMES adds: The electronic letters won't be read by Google employees; computers will handle that chore. Nonetheless, the spector of seeing an ad for an antacid beside a message from a friend complaining about stomach pain is enough to make some people nervous about the e-mail service.
"There will undoubtedly be some folks that will see this and freak out," said Ray Everett-Church, chief privacy officer for TurnTide Inc., an anti-spam company in Conshohocken, Pa. The aggressive advertising strategy may put a damper on Google's biggest move yet away from its core business of Internet search. After reading the privacy policy on the Gmail website Thursday, consumer-rights groups began sending complaints to the privately held Mountain View, Calif., company and preparing to warn users to stay away.
"The privacy implications of going through and perusing a customer's e-mail to display targeted advertising could be the Achilles' heel for Google's services," said Jordana Beebe, the communications director for the Privacy Rights *************, an consumer group in San Diego.
The consternation caught Larry Page, Google's co-founder and president of products, off guard.
"I'm very surprised that there are these kinds of questions," he said Thursday.
For a Gig of free Space...I think I can handle a few adds here and there...there only going to be text based anywaze...In some ways I think it could be helpful
If I were planning a trip to visit a friend in Florida man instant access to hotels in my email...sweet...
Does anyone know what the size limit of the file attachments will be?
Still waiting for information off them.... :rolleyes:
At first I was thinking no way... I don't want my e-mail read by Google or advertising as I would would not ever need that much space for e-mail... But then I began to think 1GB is slightly more than what I keep for updates, which at this point is slightly less than 700MB! It would be nice if I could just upload all my updates to Google that way when I get to play computer know-it-all with friends I can just access the updates at GMail...Quote:
Originally Posted by Taz Devil
Who cares if Google knows I have W2k SP4 or ForceWare 56.72!