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I hope this isn't an April Fool's joke. Supposedly it opens up tomorrow to invitees only. No word on when it will be available for the rest of us.

Oh, and supposedly the storage will be 1 GB, as opposed to Hotmail's 5 MB.

Official homepage:
http://gmail.google.com/

Official press release:
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.html

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 1 April 2004 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

goodbye hotmail!

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Thursday, 1 April 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

it's gotta be an april fule joke

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 1 April 2004 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I think anyone doing anything slightly out of the ordinary today is going to be heavily doubted. As a result, I agree colin.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Thursday, 1 April 2004 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno. No tech company would want to piss off John Markoff by pranking him.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 1 April 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.faqs.org/docs/jargon/Z/Zawinski's-Law.html

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 1 April 2004 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a trick! They're going to archive all your mail! Every private mail, including death threats, porno pics and sappy love letters, will end up in the search engine! Run awayyyy!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 1 April 2004 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

the catch is the Ads! Now, when you use yahoo(unless you have plus) they put ads for yahoo in the email.

Google is going to put Ads for products in your personal email.

Not creepy enough?

It'll be relative to the content of your message, the same way Google AdSense ads know what to promote based on what your're searching for.

So send an email to a relative planning a funeral and Google places an ad for a funeral parlor in your email!

They say:

"There are no pop-ups or banner ads in Gmail. Gmail does include relevant text ads that are similar to the ads appearing on the right side of Google search results pages. The matching of ads to content is a completely automated process performed by computers using the same technology that powers the Google AdSense program. This technology already places targeted ads on thousands of sites across the web by quickly analyzing the content of pages and determining which ads are most relevant to them. No humans read your email to target the ads, and no email content or other personally identifiable information is ever provided to advertisers."

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 1 April 2004 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

feeling geeky, i should add `sed -e s/\w+program\w+/ web service /;`

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 1 April 2004 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

guess what i've been doing all day.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 1 April 2004 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

lines?

― LC, Thursday, 1 April 2004 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

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