Google to launch webmail service with 1GIG storage limit!!

[Jon M]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3588933.stm

http://www.gmail.com

I'm very interested in this.. especially if they do a good job of it.

(not sure if this should go in the "alternatives" forum or not :/ )

[NoBB]

Originally Posted by s1lv3r

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3588933.stm

http://www.gmail.com

I'm very interested in this.. especially if they do a good job of it.

(not sure if this should go in the "alternatives" forum or not :/ )

Looks good! If they do as good a job with email as they have done with search engines, sign me up!

[Derek]

Am I the only one that thinks this is an April Fools gag?

[zoombini]

No.

Page cannot be displayed this afternoon - not sure what any of you might have seen this morning, but if there was a page there, the fact that it's gone speaks volumes

Pity, I would really like a webmail account from Google.

[gazzae]

Originally Posted by towny

Page cannot be displayed this afternoon - not sure what any of you might have seen this morning, but if there was a page there, the fact that it's gone speaks volumes

Pity, I would really like a webmail account from Google.

It works for me

Originally Posted by gazzae

It works for me

what do you see? can you post a screenshot? I just get 'page cannot be displayed' and if I search for it on Google, Google's cache of the page is just a blank page.

[Jon M]

try this page towny: http://www.google.com/gmail/help/about.html

[gazzae]

there you go

Originally Posted by gazzae

there you go

thanks! BBC news says it's a beta not available to everyone. I wonder if they have some way of selecting potential users at this stage?

Originally Posted by s1lv3r

try this page towny: http://www.google.com/gmail/help/about.html

Hmm ... that link works, but the link to gmail on the page, at http://gmail.google.com is also unavailable to me.

[Jon M]

Originally Posted by towny

thanks! BBC news says it's a beta not available to everyone. I wonder if they have some way of selecting potential users at this stage?

on the gmail.com page.. there is a signup box to submit your email address for the mailing list.. i guess they've either got enough testers.. or will open it up to those on the list

Originally Posted by s1lv3r

on the gmail.com page.. there is a signup box to submit your email address for the mailing list.. i guess they've either got enough testers.. or will open it up to those on the list

Aha, but thanks to you I managed to get on the mailing list anyway - there was a field at the foot of the FAQs.

[philip.j.fry]

Google did do an April Fools, they advertised for jobs working in a google lunar research centre due to open on the moon in 2007 I wish I had remembered to save the page

[Steve H]

http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html ?