Thursday, April 01, 2004

GGG's

First came the G string, then we found the G spot, now comes along the most exciting 'G' to date:
Gmail!

"As part of Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, we're testing an email service called Gmail.

Gmail is a free, search-based webmail service that includes 1,000 megabytes (1 gigabyte) of storage. The backbone of Gmail is a powerful Google search engine that quickly recalls any message an account owner has ever sent or received. That means there's no need to file messages in order to find them again.

When Gmail displays an email, it automatically shows all the replies to that email as well, so users can view a message in the context of a conversation. There are no pop-ups or banner ads in Gmail, which places relevant text ads and links to related web pages adjacent to email messages."
If this is as good as it sounds, it leaves Hotmail and Yahoo in the dark ages. A gig of mail storage... Mind you, that's one helluvalot of spam!

Maybe it's an April fool?

Apparently, not.