Gmail! hehehe

Zygar_ Cthulhukin · Post by **Zygar_ Cthulhukin** » April 1, 2004, 6:18 pm

If only it were true....

http://www.google.com/gmail/help/about.html#support

murr · Post by **murr** » April 1, 2004, 6:30 pm

Future headline:
Users switch en masse from hotmail to gmail.

we could pray that this isn't april fools and that only the lunar job is april fools =p
http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » April 1, 2004, 7:37 pm

it was in the ny times this morning, so its pretty legit

Galdraith EQ · Post by **Galdraith EQ** » April 1, 2004, 7:40 pm

It is true, they have been working on it for a long time now. My wife works there so I'm getting one of the test gmail accounts

Arborealus · Post by **Arborealus** » April 1, 2004, 11:23 pm

Aren't they planning on scanning content or headers and sending related "marketing" emails to subscribers?

Avestan · Post by **Avestan** » April 1, 2004, 11:37 pm

Galdraith EQ · Post by **Galdraith EQ** » April 2, 2004, 2:01 pm

As far as I know it isn't targetted emails, but rather targetted text advertising. They have a product called AdSense that is currently used for what they call "contextual advertising" os something like that. Through this product, relevant adds can appear on 3rd party sites that you visit (a good example is The NY Times site) and that are signed up for it, and it is in use now. The sites share the revenue with Google.

They are planning on expanding AdSense into Gmail, so their computers will scan messages for potential keywords that will generate text ads on them. I think only a small percentage of messages will actually have ads. Anyway, that's the general gist of it, and I imagine some people will likely have some privacy issues about it. If they do, they don't have to use Gmail. I know I will!

Post by **Xouqoa** » April 2, 2004, 2:48 pm

Hook us up with some beta account, Gal!

Galdraith EQ · Post by **Galdraith EQ** » April 2, 2004, 4:32 pm

I wish I could! I think she only has 5 to give out, and I am probably getting one (on my best behavior until I actually have it!). I imagine she will give the others to her relatives or friends.

brego · Post by **brego** » April 2, 2004, 7:18 pm

id use that shit hehe

Adex_Xeda · Post by **Adex_Xeda** » April 2, 2004, 7:50 pm

How exactly will they address the sludgy inbox of junk mail?