jsw said:Actually, CNN got it wrong. Google announced that each account had a 1 GB capacity, which CNN interpreted as "gigabyte". In reality, it is a GoogleByte, defined as a mere 23.6 megabytes.
KC9AIC said:I'm pretty sure this is an April Fool's joke. I heard that they did something like this last year.
KC9AIC said:I'm pretty sure this is an April Fool's joke. I heard that they did something like this last year.
Flowbee said:Sorry, but Google is getting ready to go public (ie, issue shares of stock). It's *very* unlikely that they're making jokes about major business initiatives. Plus... just how is joking about free email supposed to be funny??
I would still sign up just to use the inbox for spam and other junk, but I wouln't use it for my personal email.marccarter said:True or not, do you really like the sound of this:
marccarter said:True or not, do you really like the sound of this:
Google plans to make money from the service by inserting advertisements into messages based in part on their content, effectively extending its AdWords program for presenting contextual ads in Web pages to e-mail.
Quoted from CNt News.com - http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5182805.html
So they have a system that reads your email's, and then inserts relevant adverts. Nice! Maybe they are hoping some terrorists sign up eh!
Marc
paulwhannel said:no offense, but did you just make that up? according to
http://gmail.google.com/
it will offer 1000 megabytes of storage per account...
paul
g808 said:I really doubt it since this would serve as negative publicity. I would think many people would be angry if this turned out to be a joke. Basically getting everyone excited only to say "April Fools"? Not very good PR.