Friday, April 02, 2004

Gmail

Welcome to Gmail: "A Google approach to email.
Gmail is an experiment in a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that you should never have to delete mail and you should always be able to find the message you want.

The key features are:

Search, don't sort.
Use Google search to find the exact message you want, no matter when it was sent or received.
Don't throw anything away.
1000 megabytes of free storage so you'll never need to delete another message.
Keep it all in context.
Each message is grouped with all its replies and displayed as a conversation.
No pop-up ads. No banners.
You see only relevant text ads and links to related web pages of interest"

FT.com / Business / US: "Millions of M&Ms later, Gmail was born,' said the company in a quirkily worded press release put out yesterday with an April 1 dateline that had many journalists (including this one) wondering whether this was another April Fool's spoof. Gmail, however, turns out to be real...

Gmail, which will go live with a few invited trial users today and has its own website (www.gmail.com) will automatically organise e-mail according to topic and allow users to search their e-mail - including sender, text and subject lines - in the same way they search the internet, Wayne Rosing, Google's vice president of engineering, said...

Gmail will be supported by 'contextually relevant' text adverts that will appear in the margins of individual e-mails - rather like the advertisements that appear down the right-hand margins of Google search results pages.

Google emphasises that users' e-mails will only be machine read and that no human eyes will be involved."

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