Google plans rival e-mail service

[laracroft8290]

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Google, the world's most popular internet search engine, plans to offer an e-mail service called Gmail in a bid to rival Yahoo and Microsoft's Hotmail.

The new service promises to take away the need to delete unwanted messages and organise e-mail according to topic.

The service is still being tested and not yet generally available, but will be offered for free on www.gmail.com. (http://www.gmail.com.)

Google mail provides one gigabyte of storage - many times more than existing rivals that also offer free e-mail.

Each user would have storage equivalent to 500,000 pages of e-mail, said Google.

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[ 01. April 2004, 14:26: Message edited by: laracroft8290 ]

[vectra_sri]

1 GB of storage space http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/yikes.gif

[NatEcho]

A person who needs that much space needs a serious cut of power so their obsession with computers, e-mail and the internet can be dealt with!

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[laracroft8290]

Originally posted by NatEcho:
A person who needs that much space needs a serious cut of power so their obsession with computers, e-mail and the internet can be dealt with!

http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/bash.gif I doubt that they will have that much in the end...maybe 100MB ;)