Goodbye Hotmail

[BoondockSaint]

Google has created it's own webmail service. It can store upto 500,000 pages per person

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[Reephdweller]

Awesome!!


Storage: Google believes people should be able to hold onto their mail forever. That's why Gmail comes with 1,000 megabytes (1 gigabyte) of free storage -- more than 100 times what most other free webmail services offer.


I can't wait to sign up. I don't use Hotmail, but I do have about 6 yahoo email accounts.

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[ChickenHawk]

This is bad news. The second google starts spending money on free e-mail services, they will need to start paying for it. And how would they do that? YES...

AD BANNERS.
Ads everywhere.

Google has turned to the dark side. The last clean search engine is soon to be cluttered with cumbersome ads.

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[SatCam]

Doesnt Google have their own Ad service. I assume they make money off of that. Besides, obviously many companies pay big bucks to get their sites at the top of the search results.

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[ChickenHawk]

1 gig per user, for a free service? They're gonna hook hundreds of thousands of users in and then start charging for a "premium" service in about a year. Expansion comes at a price.

You just wait, the ads will come.

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[BoondockSaint]

This is bad news. The second google starts spending money on free e-mail services, they will need to start paying for it. And how would they do that? YES...

AD BANNERS.
Ads everywhere.

Google has turned to the dark side. The last clean search engine is soon to be cluttered with cumbersome ads.

1 gig per user, for a free service? They're gonna hook hundreds of thousands of users in and then start charging for a "premium" service in about a year. Expansion comes at a price.

You just wait, the ads will come.

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[Arienette]

This is bad news. The second google starts spending money on free e-mail services, they will need to start paying for it. And how would they do that? YES...

AD BANNERS.
Ads everywhere.as satcam was saying, google already sells advertising, and that's how they make money.

just a clarification, though, you can't pay to get your search results higher up. google's algorithm looks at how many other sites reference sites with content related to the search terms. but the sponsored links on the right side of the google search page are paid for. and google also rents out space on other pages, as well.

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[Ronnie_Dobbs]

APRIL FOOLS (a few hours early)

[JustJon]

Google makes an obscene amount of money because they pretty much invented the text ad and every site uses their service now.

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[SatCam]

APRIL FOOLS (a few hours early)

Are you sure? I mean, yea, YAHOO's reporting this, probably Google's number 1 competitor, but their gmail.google.com is now up, and it seems their serious about this. I hope they are.

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[reeshy]

When is this "free" service supposed to start??????

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[SatCam]

When is this "free" service supposed to start??????

In a few decades, when a gigabyte becomes what a kilobyte is today. Like the value of $5 in 1800.

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[UnknownPD]

The deal is in order to get the "gig" of space you have to agree and let google review the email for keywords and then they will send you ads related to your emails

[DreamWeaver]

How is everyone already getting gmail accounts? I signed up for the alert and got nothing.

Whos' dick do I gotta suck to get some explosions around here???

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[AngelAmy]

i have a gmail account, its awesome. i love it. its only beta right now so im sure it will get much better.

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[Tall_James]

I got my G-Mail account yesterday. I haven't had much time to play with it though.


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[Reephdweller]

I haven't been able to get it. I'm not special.

:(

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[JustJon]

It's in beta. limited number of users so far...

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[WindowSill]

So how did you guys get an account?

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[reeshy]

I started using my new account today...it's great!!!! I also got an introductory email from Google explaining why only some people got to use the beta version for now...it seems that they only want cool people using it and they are trying to avoid giving to people that they consider "dicks"...hey, I didn't make this up...this is what they say!!!!

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[WindowSill]

it seems that they only want cool people using it and they are trying to avoid giving to people that they consider "dicks"


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[Lumber]

Mr. Bad Touch thinks he`s cool because he gets all the free services by giving them free hot dogs off his cart on the Avenue of the Americas. Big Company Execs. that is!

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[mikeyboy]

C'mon. Everybody knows Bad Touch got his account by doing the "tuck" dance for google bigwigs.

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[Violent Jay]

Gmail is making there money on this by imbedding relavent ads inside your email. There also sharing information about you anonymously.

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[Reephdweller]

I just got my Gmail account. Sweet!

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[SatCam]

Fucking google. Give me my account NOW!

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[Fallon]

I have six gmail invitations to use. PM me iwith your current email if you want one.

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[mikeyboy]

I have 1 invite. Send me a PM if you want it.

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[JustJon]

I use my gmail account but never get any invites to give out :(

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[mikeyboy]

Google is judging you for the e-mail you receive.


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[canofsoup15]

I have 5 invites. Let me know if you want it.

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[reeshy]

OK..here's dumb question....I wanted to export my contacts from Hotmail but I don't have Microsoft excel...they tell me I have to use CSV files...what do I do now to get my contacts imported into Gmail???...I'm dumb!!!

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[Reephdweller]

I still have invites to give. Google loves me.

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[Meve]

I'm now signed up but how do you get these invites?

"Suck it. Suck it dry"

[JustJon]

I was looking on top for them. didn't realize they got moved to the left side like that. ok, I did have invites. yay.

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[monsterone]

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[BoondockSaint]

cos is the man!!!


Yes. Yes he is.

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[Meve]

I was looking on top for them. didn't realize they got moved to the left side like that. ok, I did have invites. yay.

what? where? i want invites

"Suck it. Suck it dry"

[canofsoup15]

Gentlemen, settle down. There is PLENTY of my awesomeness to go around. Lal.

I jest.

I still have three invites, fresh out the oven, again, let me know.

I don't jest about that part.

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[monsterone]

do you cry when you pass your awesomeness around?

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[canofsoup15]

It brings a tear to my eye but its not full on sobbing.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to watch Back to the Future 2.

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[Freakshow]

I got invites.

PM if yall want em.

Include your current email addy.

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[mikeyboy]

If there is anyone who still wants a gmail account who doesn't have one, PM me. I have 6 invites.

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