Gmail Nearing Full Launch
Everton | Mar 22, 2005 | Comments
Google is beginning to slowly roll out its Gmail service. Since Monday, approximately 1 in 20 users to the Google.com homepage have been allowed to register for accounts. Previously,tto get a Gmail account, a user had to be invited to the service by either Google or an existing Gmail user.
Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer Web products said that
"Based on the success of this one-in-20 scope, we'll be ramping it up over the next couple of weeks"
Gmail surprised the webmail market when it announced in April 2004 due to its then unprecedented 1G-byte inbox storage, prompting hotmail and Yahoo! mail to increase their inbox storage capacity.
However, not many ISPs have responded. It will be interesting to see how ISPs respond when Gmail is fully rolled out as in my experience, the Gmail users that I know use Gmail as a second account to store files they need on the move, and not for email, and continue to use their ISP account as their main account.
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About the Author: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.
He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day.
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