it's 1999 all over again, google begins its descent.
 

Google is offering free e-mail...
1 GB of storage.

So, they can have more adword space that advertise keywords similar to the subject matter fo the e-mail.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/interne....ap/index.html

how do you figure this will fuck google?

its an april fools joke

i dont see what the big deal is it is the largest search engine around why not offer email and charge for extra storage, i mean you know hotmail is making the money from somewhere and advertisements and storage space have a large part of it

I wonder if they are going to be up to anything funny today!

i think they should stick to doing searches....:glugglug

Providing email doesn't hurt their searches any, does it?

april fools joke for sure.

I dunno if it's a joke ... But their page was all 404 earlier today . Right now it's almsot working except the email form

they just wanna rate higher on alexa ;D

info page is up now.

its not a joke...got an icq from a friend that works at google today telling me bout it....its the real deal.

sweet, i'd get one.

http://gmail.com/

google always get the domains

It actually looks like a decent service. 1000 megs of storage space? My Hotmail account that I use to avoid spam is always bouncing e-mails cause I'm out of space.

some people like to talk shit just to hear the sound of their own voice.....pathetic really...

Don't hotmail and the like give you 4 megs of storage? :1orglaugh

Wow. Google is going to make (another) fortune off of this.

If it weren't for the concerns of privacy I would like their idea...

the idea of turning all your emails into conversations sounds cool... so you don't have to look in your out box all the time to see what you said last.

wtf, thats so pointless.

Stick to what you're good at!

it was only a matter of time, their two biggest competitors offer it

A gig of free email space? Jesus.