Google Mail - 1 gb or BS?

[fraggle]

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?

http://gmail.google.com
Press Release

+ most news sites

[Reak]

Originally posted by fraggle
April Fools or two fingers to Competition?



Including:
1 gig of space (250 times more space in Yahoo)
Searchable Database - rather than filing system
Contextual Ads (ad words)

It's about 100 times more then Hotmail too

[Theo]

the amount of people that will use anything close to this amount of space is minimal, thus google gains publicity at minimal cost.

[fraggle]

yep

I guess the space isnt such a great issue - especially not ove time

I still cant work out whether its an April fool yet

The ad system will increase ad exposure a massive amount
I think about about 20%+ MSN traffic is hotmail.msn.com

[riosluts]

if its 1Gb. I bet that alot of warez piracy will be stored on there. So i doubt its 1Gb

[i am a lurker]

itll be great for distributing warez.

[momo]

Google says "Gmail" is no joke

http://www.forbes.com/technology/new...tr1320652.html

[shogun3k]

I was sure that that was an April Fool, or maybe that article is

It's confusing! lol

[icu33774]

yeah its hard to tell

[High Quality]

I dunno. Seems pretty cool either way.

[fraggle]

Its been released on most news/industry sites now i think

Noone seems to know yet though

I hope they have a good compression system for mail

[cj-design]

i doubt that in april fool cos:

A) its not funny if it is
B) why wud they go to the trouble of doing all that content?

sounds good, wonder if u can pop to it?

[fraggle]

true true

I guess its an exposure thing - they are being very aloof about dishing the info on the service

Im almost sure its true
But
A) GoogleGuy at WMW has been saying nothing
b) they havnt run this through the Labs as most new services would be
however
Saying nothing will be a PR stunt
They will release it im sure
Assides branding, which i think is dodgy, they will do V well.
and i want a decent addy ;)

[DR_PHIL]

must have money to burn..big offering coming up

[Cyborg 2.0]

its true they have it all over the news and they regret saying it on april 1st cause many didn't belive them

[cayne]

who needs a free-email ?!

[insanesurfer]

i think that it will turn out to be a joke or at least the amount of space they give.

[baddog]

Originally posted by insanesurfer
i think that it will turn out to be a joke or at least the amount of space they give.

nope and nope.

It is great pr for them, and they freely admit they will be scanning the mail topics so they know what you are into so they can spam you with info they think you will want to hear

I wonder if they will filter out adult topics

[B40]

There might be a max attachment size, so even at 1gb, the max attachment might only be 1-2mb...just a guess

[stev0]

looks interesting... i don't think it's an april fools joke because the gmail site still says it.

[Jace]

Originally posted by B40
There might be a max attachment size, so even at 1gb, the max attachment might only be 1-2mb...just a guess

it says right on the page, 10mb