Google to offer free email with 1GB storage

[ttown]

If this is an april fools joke, then they got the press too!

It made the noon TV news in western WA.

Was just about to post it....

 

[Slick5150]

Originally posted by: thedealmaker
Anyone who have a brain will know that Google won't offer 1GB email storage for free anytime soon. They may be offering free email with storage more than other providers. In fact, they don't need to offer 1GB free to take away other providers' customers. Just 100mb free will do the job.

There's something ironic about that statement.

 

[starwarsdad]

I work in a company with 20 users. 1 in 5 of my users has a PST larger than 1 GB with one user nearly to 3. It ain't hard to do if you work in a business that lives on email and requires you keep a CYA file....

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: starwarsdad
I work in a company with 20 users. 1 in 5 of my users has a PST larger than 1 GB with one user nearly to 3. It ain't hard to do if you work in a business that lives on email and requires you keep a CYA file....

damn, where I worked over the summer people had mail archived back for like 6 years, we had to constantly split PST files.

 

[QueBert]

I'm 99% sure this is real, and I'm sure it won't be as simple as Yahoo, where you can make a million accounts. For this kind of storage, they're going to have some sort of call back (like 1and1's free hosting) or something to make sure people don't sign up for like 20 accounts.


a gig is overkill, even if you filled it up after like 10 years of emails. Having them organized would be a royal bitch.

I'd use this simply because they say it'll have google search for emails, so I can find my emails faster

 

[allisolm]

For everyone who didn't think this was real - and for more information for the rest of us - here.

Larry Page, co-founder of Google says this has been tested internally for about a year.

It will have 1GB storage, 10MB limit per email. Text-based ads targeted to you like the ones on the right side of search results pages, and keyword search of your email.

Should be available to the general public in a few weeks.

You can sign up for notification here.

 

[Stoerm]

Honestly, it doesn't sound too good to be true to me. The fact that they'll be scanning your mail and then advertising to you is creepy. Think of the ad revenues they generate... it sounds real to me.

There may be some sort of max limit in size per file. If the max data per mail was 100k, the 1gig would never be used. If there is, the account is worthless to me.

 

[aldamon]

If this is real, I'm all over it. Yahoo doesn't delete the Bulk Mail folder daily, only every 30 days, so if I don't log on every day, all of the SPAM messages will fill my allotment in about a week.

 

[elgorey]

Its April 2


no joke

:thumbup:

 

[InlineFive]

If it is a confirmed 1GB storage I'll put up with the ads for a porbleemo@gmaii.com account.

 

[allisolm]

If it is a confirmed 1GB storage
If this is real, I'm all over it.

From today's article "Gmail will offer 1gigabyte of storage space, roughly 500,000 pages of e-mail. Gmail users will be able to receive up to 10 megabytes in a single e-mail - more than the free services of Yahoo and Microsoft's Hotmail allow to be stored in an entire mailbox."

 

[duhh]

Max of 10MB per attachemt according to the MSNBC article/interview .... that means many people wont fill 1GB. I wonder how they will handle security. I can see people splitting illicet content into 10MB chunks and publishing it via gmail.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: duhh
Max of 10MB per attachemt according to the MSNBC article/interview .... that means many people wont fill 1GB. I wonder how they will handle security. I can see people splitting illicet content into 10MB chunks and publishing it via gmail.

that would be such a waste of time.

dont you people ever get tired of stealing software and stuff? just go buy it if you want it.

 

[quiksil903]

7. What about spam?

Google is committed to keeping unwanted messages out of your inbox. Gmail includes a sophisticated spam filter that we're continuing to improve. The Report Spam link in Gmail is a way for users to help with this effort. It removes spam from the inbox and sends valuable data to the Gmail team working on spam blocking.

Here's another wrinkle. Dollars to donuts, if this takes off, the next great spam filter/software is coming from Google.

Gmail does include relevant text ads that are similar to the ads appearing on the right side of Google search results pages.

How many people are currently creeped out and inconvenienced because of the text ads on the current search page? That's what I thought.

 

[ianbergman]

How many people are currently creeped out and inconvenienced because of the text ads on the current search page? That's what I thought.

I'm actually not at all... which I think is what you meant. I trust Google a hell of a lot more than I trust Yahoo! with my mail, and I don't see this service as being any different. Any mail host could scan through all the emails it has in storage if it wanted to, and the fact that a bot is looking for relevant keywords in my messages? Fine, as long as the privacy policy says they won't be saved or sent anywhere. I don't mind google's text ads in the least bit.

As for spam... as far as I'm concerned, this is an opportunity for my favorite little software company Cloudmark to shine... integrate their spamnet technology with a service as large as gmail and boom, no one will ever get spam again.

 

[Ranger X]

I would highly recommend not discussing viagra and male enlargements over GMail.
Think about the SPAM!

BTW, won't spam create more spam in GMail? If we get an unwanted e-mail about viagra, GMail will send us MORE information on viagra.

 

[VaG]

Originally posted by: thedealmaker
Anyone who have a brain will know that Google won't offer 1GB email storage for free anytime soon. They may be offering free email with storage more than other providers. In fact, they don't need to offer 1GB free to take away other providers' customers. Just 100mb free will do the job.

If they are really offering 1gb free, the management of Google is really going downhill. That is suicide in term of business when all online business are focusing on Profit. This is not the 90's.

Congratulations, you have just won the coveted title of most illogical post within this thread. The top two highlights:
"Anyone who have a brain will know that Google won't offer 1GB email storage for free anytime soon."
"if they are really offering 1gb free"

Edit: It was almost unbearable to finish reading your post, but now you receive my vote for most ignorant post within this thread as well.

 

[allisolm]

I would highly recommend not discussing viagra and male enlargements over GMail.

I thought about that - what if someone sends me a joke which mentions male genitalia? Will I get the ads for viagra and enlargement? Oh, wait! I already do!

 

[acityDweller]

IMHO, it sounds too good to be true.

 

[sujanks]

Originally posted by: commOdog
I'm going to make 5 accounts and backup a dvd to my email account..............................

nice.. i just can't wait when i can start signing up..

 

[VaG]

Originally posted by: acityDweller
IMHO, it sounds too good to be true.

Well, if you weren't a lurker before you signed up, stick around because this won't be the last thing you see that sounds too good to be true and is proved otherwise.

 

[duhh]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: duhh
Max of 10MB per attachemt according to the MSNBC article/interview .... that means many people wont fill 1GB. I wonder how they will handle security. I can see people splitting illicet content into 10MB chunks and publishing it via gmail.

that would be such a waste of time.

dont you people ever get tired of stealing software and stuff? just go buy it if you want it.

Im not promoting the idea of stealing it at all. I used to use webdrive for completely legal purposes but that thing died fast because of people filling junk accounts with software. Im just saying if this thing is true they better have a plan to stop that kind of activity.

 

[NYSTrooper]

Not hot at all.

Google will be reading your email to generate ads based on the content.

 

[kennyG]

Well if this is a joke..YAHOO is scared!
the yahoo mail plus price has gone down $10 per account..
29.99 new price 19.99 for 25megs
39.99 new price 29.99 for 50megs
59.99 new price 49.99 for 100megs..
Hey it's scaring them so maybe this is no joke..I dont like this scaning account stuff but 1gig is intresting..yes

 

[exisle]

As an Email Admin, I have to say that a 1GB mail account is plain stupid. Maybe if it's a web-based account only, it would work. But if you were trying to load the headers using IMAP, your client would probably seem so slow when you click on a folder that it wouldn't work. That is, only if you actually use most of your space.

I don't know why anyone would ever offer something like that since it won't scale very well. Think about how many Terabytes of data they'll have to be able to support overnight. We're talking about $60,000-80,000 for each 1TB SAN which only supports 1000 users. So we're talking a $60-80 committment for them per user and that's not even counting server, support, or licensing costs which usually cost more than the disks. This is either fake, or it will be short lived when the admins over there sober up.

Actually one of the reasons google has been so successful is because they don't use enterprise class products. Most of the computers behind their infrastructure are just regular pc's with several hard drives clustered in large arrays. So forget about $60-80K, it might cost $1000 to build a pc with 4 x 250 GB hard drives... and it's also known that most people aren't technically involved enough to even have a way to use their entire space.