
Vanaf donderdag zal Google, volgens bron, de nieuwe dienst GMail introduceren.
Gratis email met 1 Gb
BronGoogle to launch email service
April 01, 2004 10:11 IST
Internet search giant Google is likely to launch its electronic mail service -- Gmail -- on Thursday, says The New York Times.
It will be 'soft launched,' -- according to people involved with the plan -- in a manner that Google has followed with other features that it has added to its web site, with little fanfare and initially presented as a long-running test.
E-mail has become a crucial weapon in the competition to win the allegiance of Internet users, who often turn to one or two web sites as the foundation of their online activities, the NYT said.
Google will offer consumers better access to search their e-mail and could well upset the industry balance by offering free access to services that previously were only available by paying a monthly subscription fee, the newspaper said.
The company is planning a service to be supported by advertising that will permit its users to store very large amounts of mail at no cost.
Google's entry into the e-mail business will sharpen the lines between major portals like Yahoo and MSN, the newspaper added.
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http://www.gmail.com
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Have fun!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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