Saturday April 10, 2004

Google my Google

Category: The Web | 5 Comments | Posted 14:02

You might have heard that Google are planning to start a Webmail service which offers a whopping 1GB storage space. The service will pay for itself by displaying relevant text ads based on terms it gleans from your emails.

Now when I first read about this I was sure a lot of people would start whingeing about privacy issues right away. I checked a few news sources but none of them seemed to have any concerns, they all focused on the competition issue (Yahoo and Hotmail obviously - did you know Yahoo has loads more users than Hotmail?).

Aaanyway. They've finally woken up - the privacy whingers I mean. And it's in the news too of course. Ja. I admit they have a point. But I still love my Google. :x :P

  Comments

so the email thing wasn't an April Fools joke?!

Posted by: squiZZ at Sat April 10, 2004 15:25

In my experience, Yahoo is a lot better than Hotmail (and it offers much more free space).

Posted by: Sanja at Sat April 10, 2004 15:33

I just visited http://www.google-watch.org and they're not too positive about google... Gmail sounds extremely promising though.

Posted by: Evelien at Sat April 10, 2004 16:23

No wasn't
I like Yahoo a lot better too.
And yeah I know not everyone likes Google.
Well I do.
Tho Inktomi Slurp is much cuter of course

Posted by: Clarissa at Sat April 10, 2004 17:28

I prefer dwolp-mail

@ inktomi slurp

Posted by: d at Sat April 10, 2004 23:03