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Google Mail project
About 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.

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How much does Gmail cost?

Gmail is a free service and includes 1,000 megabytes of storage with each account. However, Gmail is still in preview mode as we test it to work out the kinks. So for now, it's not generally available.

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What about spam?

Google is committed to keeping unwanted messages out of your inbox. Gmail includes a sophisticated spam filter that we're continuing to improve. The Report Spam link in Gmail is a way for users to help with this effort. It removes spam from the inbox and sends valuable data to the Gmail team working on spam blocking.

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Yeah, I read about that, I hope I'll be one of the first to grab an @google.com address!

real or not, im signed up (hope they chose me for their testing phase)

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Originally posted by martin
real or not, im signed up (hope they chose me for their testing phase)

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* martin slaps thyself around a bit with a large trout.
* martin needs to learn how to read

http://gmail.google.com, but It's in the first post, though

is it just me, or is it another april fools joke, oh yeh another one from google btw

http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html

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Originally posted by jackass_wanabe
is it just me, or is it another april fools joke, oh yeh another one from google btw

http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html

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and personalized search is a few days old.


google doesn't launch fake services for april fools pranks. they talk about pigeons (someone else find the link).

this seems real, but who really cares?

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Google Labs
New!    Personalized Web Search
Get personalized search results based on your interests
3/29/04 - Give us feedback - Discuss with others


New!     Web Alerts
Find out about new web pages on a topic of interest
3/29/04 - Give us feedback

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Err google does use pigeon power

http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

I believe that is what you're after

at the moon thing - giant lava lamps filled with biomass

Looks good be nice to see if it takes off

it's not an April 1st joke it's for real

* Kryptonate wants one

jackasswanabe@google.com


do you think they will have others like
- @gmail.com
- @google.<your nationality here >

I think they will have @gmail.com because google.<nationality> is for major exclusive people!

google having email, that tops the ball,

how........ exciting

They probably won't release @google.com e-mails to avoid hoaxes and people pretending to be Google employees stealing money to ignorant businessmen

For now, they will only give @gmail.com addresses (which will be the TOP thing when it's released )

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Originally posted by Guido
They probably won't release @google.com e-mails to avoid hoaxes and people pretending to be Google employees stealing money to ignorant businessmen

For now, they will only give @gmail.com addresses (which will be the TOP thing when it's released )

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im going to get one


do u think they will have pop3?

becuase, how will we know when we get a new email?

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Originally posted by jackass_wanabe
do u think they will have pop3?

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becuase, how will we know when we get a new email?

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Originally posted by lylesback2
well ya, they offer such a HUGE storage space! so why wouldn't it kick hotmail, yahoo's, and AOL's ass!

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Originally posted by jackass_wanabe
do u think they will have pop3?

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Originally posted by Guido
They probably won't release @google.com e-mails to avoid hoaxes and people pretending to be Google employees stealing money to ignorant businessmen

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Originally posted by Guido
Even if they offered 4mb, EVERYBODY will want to get a Google e-mail address...

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Originally posted by Kryptonate
not necesserily EVERYBODY, most ISP's give < 10MB of mailstorage room to their users (srry, I'm bored, so I'm being picky)

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Originally posted by WDZ
Yeah, I agree... I think that would be stupid if they gave out @google.com addresses.

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Well, Google is going to offer public stock (or whatever it is in English). So it's very interesting for them to offer new services, and the best way is to get personalized ads related to the content of the page you're viewing (AdSense, which has a very high quality). Attracting new customers and users (well, you kinda pay for viewing ads on the page) will make the company more influencing and more money will be spent in stocks... so... more $_$

i heard from a source, Hotmail, has now undergone changes to it's storage as well!  1TB! storage space! (per user)

could not be true... could be, but heard from a very reliable source (zero1)

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Originally posted by Guido
i heard from a source, Hotmail, has now undergone changes to it's storage as well!  1TB! storage space! (per user)

could not be true... could be, but heard from a very reliable source (zero1)

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this is insane...
now theres 1GB storage which is great! then hotmail gives 1TB, which is....better than great lol!!!!
and soon they say that there will be 10TB of storage then 50PB storage....man i don't think we need this much space


even if the article is fake this may still be true in the future....

Why do I not believe the hotmail thing?

Anyway... better than any free storage is pop3 where u get as much as you can cram onto your [40gb for me] hard drive... it's taken years just for mine to reach a gigabyte...

Will you be able to access GMail through Outlook\Outlook? Like Hotmail

no, it says its not POP3

guido i mean, say hotmail pops up a message in messenger.......


* Stigmata thinks for Messenger plus 4 feature maybe?

Gmail might support POP3 in the future which means you'll be able to access it trough Outlook or any other mail client. Therefor you'll be able to see that you've got new e-mails by using Messenger Plus!, it's an option in MP!2 already, so what are you talking about MP!4?

it says no pop3....

so say a feature that logged onto the gmail server and checked inbox, sorted

thats why 4, becuase gmail wont be realised for a while now

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Originally posted by Kryptonate
Gmail might support POP3 in the future

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  Who'll use a GB for email the Webmail server at college doesnt even use that much space for 500 users tis shit0r

It's just a scam really to say you dont have to worry about your email space just delete the crap you dont need (which most people do do)

the link is very suspcious... im gonna search the real CNN

it's fake... cause i searched cnn.com for that title, and no matches.. then searched microsoft for articles on april 2nd... and apperantly there is no article wrote about microsoft on april 2nd

Hehe, I've got 5GB email storage for each of my addresses anyway

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Originally posted by lylesback2
the link is very suspcious... im gonna search the real CNN

it's fake... cause i searched cnn.com for that title, and no matches.. then searched microsoft for articles on april 2nd... and apperantly there is no article wrote about microsoft on april 2nd

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thats doesnt seem like alot, but you'd make alot of money off a free host... just put ads in every e-mail

Of course the Hotmail article is fake!

That's why I actually put the full link and not put a caption for it...


Anyway, here is a real screenshot of GMail, hosted in Google servers:

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Originally posted by jackass_wanabe
it says no pop3....

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Originally posted by anubis_kree_
Hotmail isn't POP3 its web based but it works in Outlook\Outlook Express

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Don't you have to use an external app to check hotmail in Outlook though?

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Originally posted by M-Head
Don't you have to use an external app to check hotmail in Outlook though?

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Oh, cool, I didn't know that! Thanks, Keystorm.

mail.hotmail.com aint it, port 110

then smtp.hotmail.com port 25

* Stigmata trys to remember

I just went through the stuff on outlook express, set it up, then went to check my emails and it said the service is unavailable. it works fine on my ntl account.

Gmail might violate privacy according to privacy watchers. Google's cookie already keeps track of every search you ever conduct and an Orkut-cookie stores who you are. Gmail will be free but the e-mails that you'll send will contain adds that are similar to what you search most. If you delete an e-mail or terminate your account, Google might have a copie of your e-mails on their servers saved.

Source: The Register

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Gmail might violate privacy according to privacy watchers.

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Google's cookie already keeps track of every search you ever conduct

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the e-mails that you'll send will contain adds that are similar to what you search most

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If you delete an e-mail or terminate your account, Google might have a copie of your e-mails on their servers saved.

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of COURSE the hotmail article is fake. did anyone but me look at the URL??? http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~wesleyr3/hotmail.htm.

when did CNN change its adress

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Originally posted by fluffy_lobster
... better than any free storage is pop3 where u get as much as you can cram onto your [40gb for me] hard drive... it's taken years just for mine to reach a gigabyte...

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Originally posted by bach_m
of COURSE the hotmail article is fake. did anyone but me look at the URL??? http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~wesleyr3/hotmail.htm.

when did CNN change its adress

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Or they should be shot.

1tb... seems very unbeliavable anyways   It's a dream thats very far off... and 1GB will do... anyone for @google.com e-mail with google messenger

1tb is more than most comps have

Correction, Very few SUPER computers have 1 tb, NOT ONE! Home PC could have 1 TB That would be 1000 GB and that would mean you'd need AT LEAST 5 Hard-Drives

i said MOST dont not all of them dont

well ALL home pc's don't have 1 TB.
unless u were talking about home pc's and super computers in general, then it would be tru, cos only a few super coms will have that right now...

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but you can get 1tb instead of just 40gb

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exactly! and as i said before i don't think we need this much space!

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Originally posted by Kryptonate
it's not true  besides, like you would ever need 1TB just for your e-mails .

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Very few SUPER computers have 1 tb, NOT ONE! Home PC could have 1 TB

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AtomChips made an optical storage HDD that could store over 1TB by quite a bit! I'm a bit worried how Gmail plan to cope with the amount of people who are going to sign up and use a ton of space...

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And i know people who have 1TB or more on there home PC (they download a lot), just 4 drives of 250GB and you're there.

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lol, unlucky BiZaRrE!

Within a year, google are gonna need several 1 petabyte storage computers!

btw, 1TB is actually 1024GB, not very relevant when you talk about MB or kB, but 24 GB makes a slight difference

My dad relies heavily on email for his work, he will exchange several documents a day and in about 5 years we still haven't reached 1GB   I think the 1GB thing is pretty superficial... i reckon what they're really thinking is "the average account will reach X megabytes and we're prepared to give way over that".  1GB is just a way of saying they'll give you whatever you need... so they probably won't set aside 1gb for every account they have.

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so they probably won't set aside 1gb for every account they have.

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web hosts do that a lot, they say

"you can have upto 500MB of space"

when they only have 10gb of space.

so instead of just hosting 20 people, they will only allocate something like 50MB of guarenteed space for the person, on the premise that not everyone will use their full space

heh...if this whole Gmail thing is true, i might want to sign up for it...

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Originally posted by bra1nwash
heh...if this whole Gmail thing is true

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i might want to sign up for it...

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If its true, then google is doing a good job stealing Hotmail/Yahoo's balls.......(and many others)

Well, finally there will be a race for free-webmail quality

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If its true, then google is doing a good job stealing Hotmail/Yahoo's balls.......(and many others)

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The Domain Name ending for Google Mail is gmail.com, because if you go to the site and just enter Username as "Test" and Password as "Test", it returns:
Username and password do not match. (You provided test@gmail.com)

Spymac (a free e-mail provider that's pretty unknown) provides now (starting from yesterday) 1 GB mailstorage.

There's no way on hell they can provide 1GB of storage for millions of users. They probably won't allow attachments or something. Or they'll lower the limit after they'll get a little bit of mass-abuse.

And I suspect they won't even allow sorting your mail...

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cant register yet...

I doubt it will be 1 GB too...unless they isntall those micro 1 TB hard drives

Well, they are storing whole webpages and a whole bunch of images, just for the browser.
I don't think it's a matter of space with 10PT it's far enough.

And think Google haven't lied yet; all impossible things they have promised they did at the end.
Look at AdSense.

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I doubt it will be 1 GB too...unless they isntall those micro 1 TB hard drives

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Actually Google has has ALOT of those all across the world.

well, i read 2dae frm the newspapers tt Google was attacked by other rivals like M$...they said Google, which plans to scan email content electronically, might invade into the users' privacy n it can distribute incoming ads beside incoming messages...

eg. an email sent frm a friend 2 u abt lets say an upcoming holiday will include links to airline n hotels...

Well, nobody ever cared about that very same way Google displays ads on their search page (well, most people). So i do not understand why it's such a big problem all of the sudden now .

Google needs to pay their bills too.

Well, the problem is that they put adsense on public (or thought to be public) contents (eg: websites and searchresults). Now they're gonna add it to private contents which somehow evidences that they can read you emails.
Well, IMO, they could read your mail anyway if they wished. AdSense is a totally automatic thing.
It's "almost" the same as if Hotmail would have AdSense: when you read your mails, you see automatically generated ads related to what's in them.

And what's with Carnivore, Echelon or that sort of systems which catch suspicious e-mails and store them for HUMAN revision?

I think Google's on his right to do that, they have to earn something from this, they're not going to offer this for *free*...

I really don't know what i would do with 1G of space in an e-mail.. it would sort of be totally wasted.. i'll stick to my 15mb gawab account thank you (www.gawab.com)