was an April Fool's prank (since Google's fairly well known for putting
out pranks each Apr 01). However, they do have a job offer on their
moon base, which I assume is this year's Apr 1 joke.
Now, that could just be a red herring to make us think the gig of mail
space *isn't* the joke...but I tend to believe the mail thing is true.
Storage space is (relatively) cheap...and their ROI is being able to
target advertising at a likely buyer. Using that model, the more
storage space a person has, the more likely you are to serve up a
relevant ad.
Makes sense to me (which of course means absolutely NOTHING) :)
Charlie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 5:05 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: googling email
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> That doesn't say it's an April fools joke. From what others
> are talking about, the chances are high that this is real. If
> so (and Google has the cash and tech to do it) then it'll be
> massive. Yes, a Gig seems like a lot when your dealing with a
> million subscribers or more, but that's only a few thousand
> servers set up as 'drive only' machines. With some of the
> hard core storage options coming out of IBM, this number gets
> knocked down a lot. I think it's for real and if not, then it
> should be.
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> > It was an April Fools
> http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.htm> l
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