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Topic started on 2-4-2004 @ 02:32 PM by they see ALL
infowars.com...

personally i never used google to search for things 'cause i use yahoo...

is this google e-mail good or bad in your opinion???




reply posted on 2-4-2004 @ 03:15 PM by SpittinCobra
gmail.google.com...

Here you go, its real.

[Edited on 2-4-2004 by SpittinCobra]


reply posted on 2-4-2004 @ 03:19 PM by SkepticOverlord
But the 4/1 press release is a bit... uh... whimsical www.google.com... "User Complaint About Existing Services Leads Google to Create Search-Based Webmail Search is Number Two Online Activity – Email is Number One; "Heck, Yeah," Say Google Founders And my sales rep from Google has said, "I can't say" with a wink when I asked him about the 4/1 hoax rumors.



reply posted on 2-4-2004 @ 03:21 PM by SpittinCobra
Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
But the 4/1 press release is a bit... uh... whimsical

www.google.com...

"User Complaint About Existing Services Leads Google to Create Search-Based Webmail
Search is Number Two Online Activity – Email is Number One; "Heck, Yeah," Say Google Founders

And my sales rep from Google has said, "I can't say" with a wink when I asked him about the 4/1 hoax rumors.


If its a joke, its a good one.


reply posted on 6-4-2004 @ 06:52 PM by DontTreadOnMe
update:

" Google Inc. hails its new e-mail service as a breakthrough in online communication, but consumer watchdogs are attacking it as a creepy invasion of privacy that threatens to set a troubling precedent.

Although Google's free "Gmail" service isn't even available yet, critics already are pressuring the popular search engine maker to drop its plans to electronically scan e-mail content so it can distribute relevant ads alongside incoming messages.

Privacy activists worry that Gmail will comb through e-mail more intensively than the filters widely used to weed out potential viruses and spam.

Gmail opponents also want Google to revise a policy that entitles the company to retain copies of people's incoming and outgoing e-mail even after they close their accounts.

The e-mail scanning, which Google says will be handled exclusively by computers, has raised the most alarms, partly because it seeks to capitalize on messages sent by people without Gmail accounts.

Google intends to deliver ads by analyzing what's being discussed. For instance, an e-mail from one friend to another talking about an upcoming trip might include links to hotels or airlines.

Gmail has a "definite creepiness factor," said Ari Schwartz, associate director of the Center for Democracy and Technology.

Mountain View, Calif.-based Google portrays the commercialization of e-mail as a small trade-off for a service that will give each user one gigabyte of storage - up to 500 times more than other leading free services - and provide a quicker, cleaner way to search e-mailboxes. Most e-mail messages opened on Gmail won't even contain ads, according to Google."
the story continues


reply posted on 6-4-2004 @ 09:50 PM by Capone
gmail.google.com...

Residual copies of email may remain on our systems, even after you have deleted them from your mailbox or after the termination of your account.


Why would they want to keep a permanent record of your emails for a lifetime except for datamining? What advantage accrues to them to keep all your email?

Not for me, thank you.


reply posted on 7-4-2004 @ 08:12 AM by Byrd
As some of the details are coming out, privacy groups are becoming more and more concerned.

story.news.yahoo.com.../ap/20040407/ap_on_hi_te/google_mail



Although Google's free "Gmail" service isn't even available yet, critics already are pressuring the popular search engine maker to drop its plans to electronically scan e-mail content so it can distribute relevant ads alongside incoming messages.

Privacy activists worry that Gmail will comb through e-mail more intensively than the filters widely used to weed out potential viruses and spam.

Gmail opponents also want Google to revise a policythat entitles the company to retain copies of people's incoming and outgoing e-mail even after they close their accounts.

The e-mail scanning, which Google says will be handled exclusively by computers, has raised the most alarms, partly because it seeks to capitalize on messages sent by people without Gmail accounts.


And they're going to deliver ads according to what's in the email. Although I'm not that privacy-paranoid, I am considering putting a filter on my accounts that bounces any Gmail, thanks, unless they change their policy.

The gods know I get enough spam already, and the message content on Yahoo groups (where you HAVE to read past the ad to get to the message if it comes into your email) is just plain annoying.
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