2004-04-03 23:41:48
[英文研習營]Google計畫提供可容納1G容量的免費電子信箱
Google to offer free email in fight for web supremacy
April 2, 2004
Online search engine leader Google Inc plans a free email service providing 250-500 times more storage space than market leaders Yahoo! Inc and Microsoft Corp, delivering the latest challenge in a fierce fight for web supremacy.
But there`s a catch to the new service announced today - Google`s computers will scan emails to deliver targeted advertising.
Google`s service, called Gmail, will offer one gigabyte of storage space, roughly 500,000 pages of email.
Gmail users will be able to receive up to 10 megabytes in a single email - more than the free services of Yahoo and Microsoft`s Hotmail allow to be stored in an entire mailbox.
Gmail also will enable its users to type a keyword into a built-in search box to find information contained in their emailboxes within seconds.
"We think email is one of those things that is not as useful and as well organised as it should be," Google co-founder Larry Page said today.
"People have been asking us to do this for a long time."
Officials at Yahoo and Microsoft`s Hotmail division declined to comment on Google`s announcement.
April 2, 2004
Online search engine leader Google Inc plans a free email service providing 250-500 times more storage space than market leaders Yahoo! Inc and Microsoft Corp, delivering the latest challenge in a fierce fight for web supremacy.
But there`s a catch to the new service announced today - Google`s computers will scan emails to deliver targeted advertising.
Google`s service, called Gmail, will offer one gigabyte of storage space, roughly 500,000 pages of email.
Gmail users will be able to receive up to 10 megabytes in a single email - more than the free services of Yahoo and Microsoft`s Hotmail allow to be stored in an entire mailbox.
Gmail also will enable its users to type a keyword into a built-in search box to find information contained in their emailboxes within seconds.
"We think email is one of those things that is not as useful and as well organised as it should be," Google co-founder Larry Page said today.
"People have been asking us to do this for a long time."
Officials at Yahoo and Microsoft`s Hotmail division declined to comment on Google`s announcement.
