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Google Buys iPhone Search App, Kills It
Hugh Pickens writes "PC World reports that Google has acquired a popular iPhone application called reMail that provides 'lightning fast' full-text search of your Gmail and IMAP e-mail accounts. The app downloads copies of all your e-mail which can then be searched with various Boolean options. reMail has only been in the application store for about six months — with a free version limited to one Gmail account and a premium version which can connect to multiple accounts. 'Google and reMail have decided to discontinue reMail's iPhone application, and we have removed it from the App Store,' writes company founder Gabor Cselle, who will be returning to Google as a Product Manager on the Gmail team. Google isn't saying what the fate of reMail might be. Some are suggesting reMail could be integrated into Gmail search or live on in some form as a part of Android, Google's mobile platform. Another possibility is that Google may have snapped up reMail just to kill it, not because reMail was a competitor to anything Google had, but because reMail made the iPhone better or the acquisition may have more to do with keeping good search technology away from the competition, as opposed to an attempt to undercut the iPhone. 'Perhaps Google is just planning to buy up all the iPhone developers, one at a time, until Android is the only game in town,' writes Bill Ray at the Register."
Oh, and doing the crazy thing of answering myself, has anyone noticed the tags on the story? Great "journalism" why don't we just name it: "Google, evil, together, death", huh?
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Troll mod? LOL. Someone forget to eat their Cheerios this morning?
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Why is this moderated Troll? Slashdot needs to get with it and adopt a moderation system like Reddit. I spend most my time there as the quality of Slashdot has gone way downhill. I guess this will be Troll as well.
You shouldn't complain about moderation until you understand it.
Your comment will be modded "offtopic".
So will this one.
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