3/31/2004 06:05:00 PM

Google Planning to Roll Out E-Mail Service

Yes, the inevitable Google email service is on the horizon. I like that they will bring tough competition to Yahoo and Hotmail. Nothing like massive (1 Gig) email storage and stellar personal email archive searching... for free.

I don't like the name, though. Gmail? Ugh.


...While standard industry practice is to offer tiered mail services, charging for such capabilities as online storage, Google is planning an advertising supported service and will permit its users to store very large amounts of mail on the service at no cost, people familiar with the service said....

It looks like they plan to make money by sticking Ad Words into each email message based on content analysis in the same manner they do on blogs now.