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Topic: GMail
Posted By: Gullanian
Subject: GMail
Date Posted: 24 April 2004 at 8:23am
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What the heck is everyones problem with this? I think it will be fantastic, a revolution in free email services, I also think it could with enough time easily overtake hotmail. I keep getting snippets from sites and 'technical experts' with phrases like: He also expressed concern that Google was using a single cookie -- a text file stored on every user's hard drive to keep track of the user's preferences and browsing history -- for all of its services, which would allow Google to correlate people's e-mails with their Web searches. So what? Theres easier ways to correlate emails with searches, you don't need a cookie. And so what if they do? Who cares? Cookies don't damage you or your PC, cookies can only store data the user feeds to them. Gmail, the discussion is all overblown. I am looking forward to it. |
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Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 24 April 2004 at 9:14am
| Same here. |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 24 April 2004 at 9:28am
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The google we know is not the google that will be. Google plans to go public in the near future. In the US, it is conceded that corporation management has an obligation to increase the value of the company for it's shareholders. In many corps, senior management bonus is based upon doing that by "whatever it takes". They currently target their adds to your search terms. Now they'll know who your friends are as well and can make some educated guesses that your friends will probably be interested in may of the same sites that you are. As your email friend, I might start getting those high revenue adds that correspond to your searches for sites with the terms consenting+farm+animals+duct+tape. ------------- 
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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 24 April 2004 at 9:33am
| I don't think I would buy Google shares, I'm pretty sure they are near their peak in my opinion. But they wont 'know' who my friends are, their Privacy Policy says they won't use that sort of data for that sort of thing. |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 24 April 2004 at 10:40am
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Yeha right, I am sure they find a way to exploit email addresses you use. I saw something on TechTV about that last night and there are real concerns that a company that goes IPO is in the process of violating privacy like that. Personally I don't care I just have one webmail account which I use for passport and that's it. As for search engines I am back with Yahoo as their Search Engine again is much stronger then google. ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 24 April 2004 at 11:56am
| Have I missed something? Isn't yahoo using google for searches? |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 24 April 2004 at 1:23pm
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Yahoo US switched ovr to Inktomi a couple of months ago. Yahoo UK and other locations are still using google I think. -------------
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Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 26 April 2004 at 10:27am
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I'd buy Google stock in a heartbeat. It will go up because they are slowly taking over major money makers that the other 'big boys' are dropping the ball with. In the near future, you'll see Google doing a lot more than just 'internet searches' and email. They will be the single most important data provider for EVERYTHING. They will approach godhood omniscience. They have an entirely different technology than anyone else. ------------- http://renegademinds.com/" rel="nofollow - Renegade Minds - Guitar Software http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65" rel="nofollow - Slow Down Music |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 26 April 2004 at 11:45am
Time will tell  I think they have gone as far as they can pretty much. Will be interesting to see.
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 26 April 2004 at 3:17pm
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Google does have big plans, and they're hiring - http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html - http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html -------------
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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 26 April 2004 at 6:22pm
| lol thats funny |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 26 April 2004 at 7:53pm
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I imagine that once they go public, the stockholders would not look kindly on the staff spending time developing stuff like that. - piss on 'em -------------
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Posted By: 808Rider
Date Posted: 27 April 2004 at 2:22am
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Just a little on the GMail. If you haven't seen the GMail interface below are some links with screenshots. Pretty nice looking! Can't wait to get an account. GMail ScreenShots: http://fury.com/article/1990.php - http://fury.com/article/1990.php
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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 27 April 2004 at 11:37am
| http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html - http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html |
Posted By: 808Rider
Date Posted: 03 May 2004 at 1:09am
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Here's a nice article I found on GMail with some screenshots of the various features throughout GMail. http://www.w3reports.com/item/324 - http://www.w3reports.com/item/324 ------------- PodcastPUP: http://podcastpup.com - http://podcastpup.com 808Talk: http://808Talk.com - http://808Talk.com 808TTV: http://808Talk.tv - http://808Talk.tv |
Posted By: zonelinks
Date Posted: 04 May 2004 at 3:50am
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time will indeed tell..how wthis turns out..i frankly feel there shud be a less biased room for growth and development...its good that newer concepts are surfacing
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