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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. Too Good To Be True by MissMarvel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Google is a class act. It's right up there with RefDesk for how to provide a quality Internet service with eloquence and style. If Google comes onboard with an email service I'll be one of the first in line.

  2. Re:Interesting things at google. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    fee???

    Your ?-key seems to be jammed.

  3. Re:Google does it again... by richard_za · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why not host your own webmail - for ages our (relative small south african) software development company has been hosting our own webmail for internal use. I can see little reason for using a commercial provider .... what's the benefit?

  4. Re:Google does it again... by ceejayoz · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Google's advanced toolbar features are things like showing the pagerank for that page.

    For the Google toolbar to display the pagerank, they have to know what page you're accessing. Unless you've invented a telepathic computer, of course...

    If you don't like it, turn that feature off. Bam, problem solved.

    Hell, Google's site even tells you IN BIG CAPITAL RED LETTERS about it, saying "this isn't the usual legal garbage". <sarcasm>What scumbags, eh? </sarcasm>