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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."

3 of 287 comments (clear)

  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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    I make my face look like this and concerned words come out.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.