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Wednesday, March 31, 2004

An early April fools?

News.com is reporting that Google will be offering a new free email service. However, unlike the other big guys, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc that offer limited storage space, Google will give each user 1 gigabyte of space.

That's a lot of space folks! Just doing a quick run of the numbers considering the average email size I receive, a gigabyte of storage would let you store something like 100,000 messages. Of course that's messages without attachments. So a more realistic number might be something like 10 to 25,000 messages. Still that's huge!

I know I'll be signing up if just to use it as a great storage space. Any emails I want to save I could just forward them to my account to know they're safe there.

Of course the downfall to the service is the ads that get put into your messages. I know the service is free and you have to pay for it somehow but I just hate having ads slapped in my messages.

It's still early and so we'll have to see what happens. It might be a early April fools but considering the fact that Google has released several new services and just did a major overhaul of their website I wouldn't be surprised by this announcement.
Posted by abarber on 03/31/2004 at 10:06 PM
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This seems too good to be true.  There’s no way to provide that much space with the millions of people signing up.

I think it’s just playing chicken.  Majority of people won’t even use 300 MB.  So, everyone would just share the 1 gig of space.

Maybe this is just a joke.

Posted by Dave  on  04/01/2004  at  09:39 AM

 

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