Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Gmail - Google's Gig O' Free E-mail Space
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 08:00 PM
"Google, the company that made off with the search market, is setting its sights on free e-mail. The company, based in Mountain View, Calif., on Wednesday will launch a test with about 1,000 invited guests to try out a new e-mail service called "Gmail." Google, which made its name in search but has added numerous services, such as a news aggregation page and a newsgroup interface, says that Gmail is search-based e-mail."
The New York Times Technology section also has an article. It has just got to be great to be Google 8). It still won't be able to support my 3.5GB of email, but 1GB is a lot of storage space for most users, given that Hotmail offers only 2MB. In any case, they must be planning some massive storage space if they plan to make this a reality. Although, given how cheap disks are these days, I don't doubt this will happen in the near future. I wonder how they plan to back this beast up?!? :?
The New York Times Technology section also has an article. It has just got to be great to be Google 8). It still won't be able to support my 3.5GB of email, but 1GB is a lot of storage space for most users, given that Hotmail offers only 2MB. In any case, they must be planning some massive storage space if they plan to make this a reality. Although, given how cheap disks are these days, I don't doubt this will happen in the near future. I wonder how they plan to back this beast up?!? :?
