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Google's Gmail Goes Into Beta for Blogger Users

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the a-gig-will-cover-ya-for-awhile dept.

deadpixel writes "Gmail, the 1gb webmail service offered by Google, has gone into beta. Blogger (owned by google) users have first crack at the service. Besides the massive storage, the free service boasts a sophisticated spam filter, no pop-ups/banners, and gives you search results relevant to the emails you receive automatically. Bring on those attachments!"

3 of 350 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Not everyone is as evil as apple by fleener · · Score: 0, Troll
    Microsoft is a poor example of free e-mail. M$ is swimming in money from a nearly all-powerful position. And Yahoo is evil, unless you enjoy reaffirming that you don't want to receive its marketing e-mails.

    While Google is great and making a profit, it is still weak. No? They wouldn't be eyeing an IPO if they were rock solid. If you can do everything you want with the money you have, you have no reason to become a public company that answers to shareholders.

  2. Excuse me but... by Banner · · Score: 1, Troll

    Why in the world would I want this service?

    And yes I also don't like the idea of them being able to scan my email for their own purposes (even if those purposes are 'harmless' to me, sorry), which I'm sure they do.

    A gig of space? Big deal my cheap little linux server at home has 20 of those and I have email going back 10 years on it. And if/when google goes out of business or decides to charge my email will still be there, and I won't have to spend days trying to download it from google.

  3. Re:The ad by boredMDer · · Score: 2, Troll

    javascript:void(window.open('/gmail.pyra'));

    Is the link.