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Google Eyes New Email Service, Expansion

Posted by simoniker on from the ultimate-internet-moogles dept.

GillBates0 writes "According to a CNN/Reuters story, Google is developing a service to attach its lucrative keyword-based advertising to email: ''I'm sure Google is getting more and more concerned about locking in users. It wouldn't surprise me if they did something very sophisticated with e-mail,' said Danny Sullivan, editor of SearchEngineWatch.com, who tracks the industry.' Apparently, Google has purchased an e-mail management software maker and registered the domain name googlemail.com. The article also speculates that Google is slowly on the way to becoming a full-fledged portal, with the gradual addition of more and more portal-like features like Froogle."

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  1. Moooogle by manganese4 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just think when you get all your usual spam, it will be annotaed by keyword to other sites that sell similar crap

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  2. Re:Too Good To Be True by Triumph+The+Insult+C · · Score: 4, Funny

    yup

    couldn't agree more. google is definitely a class act. like their pop-up blocking software. it blocked 3 for me from that refdesk site.

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  3. Thus it begins by UberOogie · · Score: 4, Funny
    1) Web-based company? Check.
    2) Do one thing incredibly well? Check.
    3) Do one thing so well you got MS nervous? Check.
    4) Slowly expanding offerings that move more and more away from core competancy? Check.
    5) Try and become everything for everyone? Check.
    6) Spiral and burn?

    The pencil is poised. I hope to god its not true.

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  4. This is no surprise by dmoore · · Score: 5, Funny
    According to the law of software envelopment:
    Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
  5. Even better... by Poulpy · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... they also registered the following domain names:
    googleporn.com
    googlesucks.com

    Can we expect better content from Google soon?

    More seriously, when they register domain names, I believe it's more to prevent abuses than anything else...
    There are more than 1800 domain names registered containing the google keyword.