Gmail

[velton]

http://www.google.com/gmail/help/about.html

http://www.vnunet.com/News/1153994

take a good at this . am not sure is that true or just a joke from google.

[Decker]

I'm sure it's a April Fool gag as it's April the 1st, it's a tradition in the UK to play jokes on that day :biggrin2:

[velton]

but u can access to www.gmail.com

[Decker]

:-) yep but they felt they had to put this '<!-- There is no secret html on this page -->' in the html to stop people looking :biggrin2:

I'm sure it's a gag - say 200,000 people sign up (not a lot) at 1Gig each - phew datacenter for free :-)

[velton]

yet another http://www.wired.com/news/business/0%2C1367%2C62897%2C00.html?tw=wn_story_top5

from wired.com , i bet u guys know bout this mag ..

[Decker]

Yep I know Wired - if you look at the page it's all over the place as far a style sheet goes, but when you look at the info on it looking bad it's ok, I think their all having a go :ditsy2:

[darkcurves]

1GB storage space?? Yeah rite!

[cowax]

I heard about this on the radio this morning at work, where they would use their adsense banners in each email sent out to basically advertise what is said in the email. If this is an april fools joke, I think it will make google look bad.

[stabme]

When someone showed me Google's press release (http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.html) about gmail yesterday, I thought it was a joke too, as the date says "April 1, 2004 UTC". Even reading some of the descriptions google uses for the service, some of which are kinda funny, it further reinforced my belief it was a joke.

It was sent through the AP wires, etc. We thought this would be an awesome joke. But after reading that wired article... it does seem rather serious.. :o Google's insane.. but yet, the best :P i'd figure that even 100MB was insane! when they considered how much email someone would have in a decade, they've must've included spam (and not minimal spam, either).... my email account just has 2-4 mb... :confused2

i dont know about the idea of eliminating folders, though.. :'(

[CareBear]

Apparantly this year's April fools joke was a google job posted for their lunar office (http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html).

Regardless, it sounds believable if only for the fact that Google needs to find a way to create loyalty with its user base. The current internet hype is search technology and if a better search engine comes along tomorrow, there's nothing that keeps people from switching from one to the other.
Microsoft has msn.com, hotmail, messenger, can build searching into its OS. Yahoo has its portal, own messenger, email, etc.
Google has nothing besides its search technology to lure people back and both Microsoft and Yahoo are currently working on perfecting their own respective search engines.

The 1Gb is most likely just a marketing incentive, there is no way you're going to fill that and even if you did, it would be a nightmare to navigate and find anything in.

(Also, if it's real. The whole real vs hoax debate sure put Gmail on the map with no costs to them :-))

[stabme]

well, google's search engine and cwarlers are far superior to other ones. i think yahoo just used to be user-submitted indexes. and msn's engine always used someone else's engine :rolleyes: .ive never regarded msn's engine as any good, anyway.

google seems a tad better than yahoo and msn in the fact that not only does it have the best engine and crawlers and has archives most, or a big part, of the internet, its page layout is simple and easy to use. it's not too cluttered or filled tons of ads like yahoo or msn.

and google just doesnt have the "search engine". it just uses the search engine for everything :P .. it also has image search, a news directory, a usenet directory, textad service, translators, merchandise search (froogle), and then those little features (cache, view as html, translate webpage, etc., which i believe google had first), then weird features like a calculator or glossary or spell check. http://labs.google.com/, http://www.google.com/help/features.html, http://www.google.com/options/index.html

im not sure if google will ever go away. it's got an uber amount of engineers who constantly work on improving google and adding services. and lets not forget pagerank, which also makes google godly.

oddly enough.. google has a store. http://www.googlestore.com/:P

[Ben]

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

[darkcurves]

1GB of space for email, mannn, really cant believe it. By the way, my email at Outlook Express is 250MB, so 1GB is nothing unless they have file size restriction.

[Epgs]

I wanna see attachment size restrictions if this is real. It would be awesome.

[velton]

am gonna to be the 1st signup .....

[trenzterra]

It is probably a April Fools as no idiot would offer 1GB for free... Even 2MB is a lot for M$N Hotmail I guess...

[awayfromforum]

Google archives a ----load of images, pages, and whatnot, what is to stop them from using that same storage to store email for people?

[trenzterra]

Originally posted by X-Istence
Google archives a ----load of images, pages, and whatnot, what is to stop them from using that same storage to store email for people? Google would definately not earn back the money from text link ads by providing 1GB of space. EG. 200 people signup and they need a new HDD...

[CareBear]

Originally posted by trenzterra
Google would definately not earn back the money from text link ads by providing 1GB of space. EG. 200 people signup and they need a new HDD... They could easily limit file attachment sizes. The average person's email isn't going to be much larger then a few Mb's in any case.
They don't even have to earn back the money, it's part of an incentive to bind people to other google activities which are profitable.

Webbased email has definite advantages, but at the end of the day I still prefer a local copy. A web based interface is simply no good for locating things quickly.

[trenzterra]

Hmm, it's a serious announcement it seems:

http://theinquirer.net/?article=15121

[Belgiumdude]

Yeah doesn't seem like an April joke...and if it is I wonder why big newssites like CNN.COM and BBC.COM are just taking this over,those sites have anof people who would check sources et cetera....

[Epgs]

I am almost positive it is real. I will surely sign up.

[bogdana.org]

I don't think it's a lie. Google is big enought to do this. From what i know it costs them around 3$/GB month. They can quickly cover up the costs using Adsense.

[trenzterra]

Just when you thought it was real..


https://gmail.google.com/gmail/html/april.html

[bogdana.org]

I don't get the purpose of that page :P

[trenzterra]

Originally posted by desperado
I don't get the purpose of that page :P It was found under http://gmail.google.com indicating an April Fools.

[darkcurves]

Maybe that person's name is April?

[bogdana.org]

I think it's more likely, the girls name should be april. This free mail thing was announced before 1st of April.

[trenzterra]

Maybe, but why put it on that page?

[bogdana.org]

Guess only google knows that for now ;). We should ask them. I really want a gmail account.

[notnamed]

I'm guessing that google initially will give you a small quota and then slowly increase it as neccesary, maving people around servers if they get too big. Surely they're not stupid enough to give full 1GB quotas from the start...

[darkcurves]

Maybe not everyone is accepted?

[velton]

i mailed them since i get to know this and this is what i get

Hello,

Thank you for your feedback. Gmail uses completely automated technology to
deliver fast and accurate search results, highly relevant ads, and other
related information to our users. Your comments will help us to make
improvements to our service and policies as Gmail evolves over the next
several months.



We hope you'll enjoy Google's approach to email.

Sincerely,

The Gmail Team

[billy1816]

the 1gig offer is real, however you should consider the fact that you read in their privacy policy.

its basically they'll read your emails to find out about your interests and send advertisement...

http://www.google.com/gmail/help/privacy.html

1 gig for privacy, a trade off in the corners if you don't look too careful, nonetheless, google hasn't stop amazing me with its surprises...

[Robert]

Originally posted by billy1816
the 1gig offer is real, however you should consider the fact that you read in their privacy policy.

its basically they'll read your emails to find out about your interests and send advertisement...

http://www.google.com/gmail/help/privacy.html

1 gig for privacy, a trade off in the corners if you don't look too careful, nonetheless, google hasn't stop amazing me with its surprises...

So? How do you think Yahoo Spam Filter works? Or Hotmail's Spam Filter? Or even your HOSTS spam filter? It has to *read* your emails. Google just took it a tad farther and will provide ads that share the interest of your e-mails.

But my question is, what if I get a lot of viagara spam mail, will all the ads display viagara links for me??

[bogdana.org]

It's confirmed, GMaIL is 100% true:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-04-01-gmail-no-joke_x.htm

[velton]

will start monitoring gmail.com ..

[trenzterra]

Originally posted by Robert


But my question is, what if I get a lot of viagara spam mail, will all the ads display viagara links for me?? ------.

Anyway, if they index it for the public to see, it's not that good.

[bogdana.org]

I don't think they will index it for the public, probably just for you account.
Velton they have a thing where you add your email, and they will announce you when it starts.

[velton]

yes, thanks for that. but i never get news from them .. :D

[kamalkhan]

Hi,

I still cant understand the reason of

https://gmail.google.com/gmail/html/april.html page on gmail website.........

says "HAPPY BIRTHDAY April !!!!!!!!!!! """ what is it ?????????????????????? and why these two ???????? and many questionssssssssssssssss ?????????

Kamal Khan

[Daniel]

April is the girl(?) and it's her birthday?

[kamalkhan]

Originally posted by Daniel
April is the girl(?) and it's her birthday?

but what is she doing in gmail.google.com ... ... ...

Kamal Khan

[Ben]

My guess is the webmaster put that up for his girlfriend/wife.

[velton]

April is that girl's bday . and because of this google's founder decided to giving away 1GB email . that gurl is closed to google somebody else .. my guess .. :D

[CareBear]

Originally posted by Robert
So? How do you think Yahoo Spam Filter works? Or Hotmail's Spam Filter? Or even your HOSTS spam filter? It has to *read* your emails. Google just took it a tad farther and will provide ads that share the interest of your e-mails.There's also the problem that the current privacy policy in no way guarantees that when you delete an email it will actually vanish from Google's servers. Or the fact that they're allowed to link together your email on gmail, with keywords you search for on google itself.
As a whole their current policy is in violation of European privacy laws, it should be interesting to see how Google handles that.
Besides all that Gmail is patented by a UK company.

Someone at google didn't do their homework :confused5

[Robert]

APril is one of Google's owners girlfriend and it was her birthday.

What better way to say happy birthday to your girlfriend by letting 1 million + people see it?

[kamalkhan]

Originally posted by Robert
APril is one of Google's owners girlfriend and it was her birthday.

What better way to say happy birthday to your girlfriend by letting 1 million + people see it?

If it is true what u said then i will suggest google people to place her pic on google home page then 1 billion people could see it. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Any way "" to her from my side ....

Kiddddddddddddingggggggg !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! kidding ... ... :P

Kamal

[kamalkhan]

Originally posted by Robert
APril is one of Google's owners girlfriend and it was her birthday.

What better way to say happy birthday to your girlfriend by letting 1 million + people see it?


Oh!!!!! Gmail is birth day gift for here ...... ....... .......

Kamal