April Fools or two fingers to Competition?
Google made a press release saying they are going to offer email services in competition with Yahoo etc.
Including:
1 gig of space (250 times more space in Yahoo)
Searchable Database - rather than filing system
Contextual Ads (ad words)
Now...
The press release looks like a piss take alright but if real this could be a stroke of genius....
Press Release
They say they will filter all mail based on content and allow you to 'search' your mail on themes base rather than having folder.
If they do that - they will be able to deliver sooo many Targeted Ads to users' browsers.
"Gmail makes using email faster and more efficient by eliminating the need to file messages into folders, and by automatically organizing individual emails into meaningful "conversations" that show messages in the context of all the replies sent in response to them. And it turns annoying spam e-mail messages into the equivalent of canned meat."
What do you think?
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