Yahoo! oops I mean Yippee or whatever other expression of joy 😛 Maybe even Gooooooooogle 😛
I finally got myself a GMail account.
It turns out my wife who uses blogger for her blog has been getting this message inviting her to join GMail for a couple of days whenever she logs in to her blogger account. Anyway as she’s not really interested she just ignored it.
She just told me about it a few minutes ago, and well I jumped on the occasion and created an email account there.
My email address is: meddah[AT]gmail.com.
I still need some time to discover and try all the features it has that I’ve read about here and there on the net, but it looks cool and I like it’s speed (not necessarily in page loading, but in the whole experience) and the fact that we don’t have to go to the server and back upon every click.
GMail lets you use search to find emails you want, so it drops the concept of folders and classification of emails that other providers have.
Maybe the most important and cool feature of GMail is the discussion based approach to email, in which emails are grouped by discussions and a discussion is pushed up in your inbox when you get a new email in it. It changes the way you look at and use email. I think it’ll be great.
I’m also redirecting an email account I have that receives 99.9% SPAM emails and only 0.1% good emails to it to test it’s anti-spam capabilities 😛
I will most probably write about GMail again soon when I test it more to give my opinion and share what I think of it.
Googlish mail.. it’s cool , but where the innovation ? could I lauch google searching in my mail box … !
Yes, you actually use search to find the emails you want.
Just need to comment on all of the postings supporting the use of the new “G-mail”, by Google.
May I suggest a warning to all of you who associate the reliable and useful search engine, “Google”, with its new addition of G-mail. Despite its’ large inbox size, and anti-spam capabilities, etc. It recently reported on NPR (National Public Radio) that G-mail is one of the most recent perversions of free email available to internet users. “G-MAIL” has employed a screening process that investigates the ‘TOTAL BODY’ of email you send and receive for use in target advertising information. Commonly screening is used on all email over the net, especially our famed yahoo and hotmail, but the legal guidlines for this screening are restricted to the subject line, NEVER THE BODY. Beware of G-MAIL…your email content is not private, and does not adhere to the formal legal guidlines of current netmail.
If you choose to use “G-MAIL” you will be a target for all forms of advertising based on the preferences and style of your email content. Sad that the trust created in the branded name of Google is being exploited by decieving its’ users. Too good to be true, usually is…how unfortunate.
-Advocate for an informed world
Well I don’t know. I think that the fuss being created around the use of adsense in Google is a bit too much.
Machines read our email all the time, just the fact that it’s being displayed for us to read means that a machine read it from somewhere and wrote it for us to read.
All that GMail is doing is adding some intelligence to that layer that reads and writes our emails.
I think that as long as this is strictly how things are done and that nothing more than a machine has access to my mail, then it’s ok.
In fact it’s better that I get ads that have to do with my interests than ads that I don’t care about.
Plus, do you really trust that the other providers don’t screen the body of your mail?
Try sending a bluff message about terrorism in your email account, and you’ll see who comes knocking at your door 5 minutes later.
Whether they have the right to when it comes to certain issues or not is beside the fact that emails are being screened anyway.
Anyway, I’m interested in knowing what other people think about this.