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Google to Launch Free Mail Service?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hit-them-where-it-hurts dept.

prostoalex writes "The New York Times article on Yahoo and Terry Semel's management (soul stealing form required) mentions Google preparing "to offer a free e-mail service, people close to the company said, in a bid for Yahoo's most important source of loyal customers"."

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  1. Re:Certainly seems like they're planning for it... by the+uNF+cola · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or they could be saving money on law suits for trade mark stuff.

    If someone took googlemail.com and used it, they could lose their trade mark and cause confusion, with or without knowing it. Paying $200 for 5 or so years for a trademark'd domain is sure cheaper than keeping a lawyer in court.

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  2. The irony... by EvilDrew · · Score: 5, Informative
    The story is about google from the New York Times, and yet somehow the submitter didn't give us the obligatory NYT/google link. ;-)

    Here ya go. (The same article is also available in The Ledger)

  3. Re:I wish someone would... by Liselle · · Score: 5, Informative
    ...but I really wish SOMEONE would do some "duplication and evolution;" maybe THAT would light a fire under some asses at google.
    Now that you mention it, you've reminded me of something: I've been told that AlltheWeb has gotten pretty good these days, and my own experiences with it have been mostly positive. They are tied to Overture, but the results seem to be pretty good, and the home page is blissfully plain.
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  4. Try alltheweb.com by gad_zuki! · · Score: 5, Informative

    I use alltheweb when not using google. Between those two I generally find what I want.

    Alltheweb is a bit more international than google (I believe its hosted in Europe somewhere) and is owned by Overture who sells google lots of search info.

    About us page here.

    They also seem to have a knack for lowering the importance of weblogs, which seems to be a big issue with some people nowadays.

  5. Re:I wish someone would... by Reivec · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just searched "motherboard reviews" on google and about 9 out of 10 links it came up with DID take me to actual reviews, so I am not sure what your complaint here is. I am hearing more and more people trash google for having too many ads and not enough content but I have personally not once found this to be a problem on google. I always find what I want pretty damn quick there.

  6. If you don't want blogs in your results; HOW TO by MikeCapone · · Score: 5, Informative

    They also seem to have a knack for lowering the importance of weblogs, which seems to be a big issue with some people nowadays.

    Here's a simple way to get most blogs out of your results in google or any other search engine (personally I use Gigablast as my primary):

    Type search query plus "-blog"

    Et voila!

    Of course it can't help it if some pages are ranked high because they are linked from blogs, but I don't think that anything from the user-side can change that.

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  7. How Google's email will work by Aspherical+Cow · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to a friend of a friend (I know, I know), Google email will place targeted advertisements in the email based on the content of the email! They plan to convince everyone that the data will not be kept, stored, or used after the ad has been placed. Why would people choose google over yahoo, hotmail, etc? They are offering 1GB of storage for free! Yes, one gigabyte for every user.