Free email account with 1 gig storage!!

[stiltman]

"Gmail" a new email service from Google is said to have 1 gig of storage
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5182805.html?tag=nefd_top

[NightWing]

Problem it closes today.

[BJ_M]

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

where does it say it ends today ? it has not even started yet - though i smell an april fools joke ...

weird thing is that all the news services are carring the story and saying for sure its not a joke ...

no one should really launch anything on april 1 if its legit ..

Business Wire approved it for issue and Reuters and other media ran stories. I guess we'll see tomorrow!

[stiltman]

Just in beta right now....so they have the right to never actually move forward with it

[handyguy]

2. How much does Gmail cost?

Gmail is a free service and includes 1,000 megabytes of storage with each account. However, Gmail is still in preview mode as we test it to work out the kinks. So for now, it's not generally available.

[cdcox]

Google plans to make money from the service by inserting advertisements into messages based in part on their content, effectively extending its AdWords program for presenting contextual ads in Web pages to e-mail.

Looks like they need to give you a gig if they are going to insert advertisments in every email you recieve based on it's content. I hate spam, why would I want google to insert and advertisment in each one of emails I receive from my aunts, uncles, and cousins? They also say that yahoo is 4mb, it's actually 6mb.

[FlittyBlitzman]

Riiiiight. April Fool's, people. Move along. Nothing to see here.

[BJ_M]

its been confrmed now that 100% it is NOT a joke...


google DID have a joke today (see thier help wanted ads) -- but the email wasnt it ..

[sitlet]

yeah its not a joke. a news station in detroit was reporting it all day today. like they had anything better to talk about

[enstg8er]

beware of "free", there could be more to this story.........
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm