Google Gets the Message, Launches Gmail

0rion

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Wed Mar-31-04 08:33 PM
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Google Gets the Message, Launches Gmail

User Complaint About Existing Services Leads Google to Create Search-Based Webmail

Search is Number Two Online Activity -- Email is Number One; "Heck, Yeah," Say Google Founders

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 2004-- Amidst rampant media speculation, Google Inc. today announced it is testing a preview release of Gmail -- a free search-based webmail service with a storage capacity of up to eight billion bits of information, the equivalent of 500,000 pages of email. Per user.

Google Gets the Message, Launches Gmail

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Wonk

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Wed Mar-31-04 08:39 PM
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1. Better links here

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040331005958&newsLang=en

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/04/01/0038200.shtml?tid=126&tid=95

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arcos

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Wed Mar-31-04 09:10 PM
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2. 1gb email accounts...

that is simply amazing...

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BadGimp

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Wed Mar-31-04 09:11 PM
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3. April Fools - me thinks

seriously...

Confirmed btw.

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union_maid

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Wed Mar-31-04 09:41 PM
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4. Confirmed, April Fools?

Or confirmed for real?

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loftycity

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Wed Mar-31-04 09:51 PM
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5. Here is the NYTimes Article

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/technology/31CND-GOOGLE.html?hp

:shrug:

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LastDemocratInSC

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Wed Mar-31-04 10:10 PM
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6. Yeah, that's cool, but can it grill a burger in less than 2 minutes?

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/igrill.shtml

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