It is April 1, which means that websites are trying to be clever by posting their jokes. Typically they are either really bland or on rare occassion they are great. Today the big news starting to circulate is whether or not Google really has a new mail service soon to be released?
The NYT newspaper has a story about it that says in pertinent part:
"The standard industry practice is to offer tiered mail services, providing only limited storage for free and charging higher fees to users who want to preserve larger numbers of e-mail messages. Google, by contrast, is planning a service to be supported by advertising that will permit its users to store very large amounts of mail at no cost.
One internal Google study put the operational cost of maintaining electronic mail storage at less than $2 per gigabyte."
I really can't see the NYT printing something that is factually inaccurate. In all seriousness, if this happens to be a true story then Hotmail and even Yahoo Mail will soon be making many changes.
Thursday, April 01, 2004
April 1
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