Current Status of Gmail
The first Gmail accounts were given to 1,000 people. The people worked at Google, or were friends and family of them. They started to try out Gmail on March 21, 2004. Since then, other people were allowed to test it. On April 25, people who used the website Blogger.com a lot were given Gmail accounts. These people were allowed to invite other people. Google says that everyone will be allowed Gmail one day. Some sources say this could be in September 2004, but Google did not make any official statement to the public release date. However, more and more have been invited to Gmail by its invite-a-friend service, and the prices on eBay have dropped.
Google's email service has stopped playing hard to get.
Google's Gmail, operated on a test basis since last spring, this week dramatically increased the potential number of users of the Web-based service.
The move could mean Google is getting ready for a public rollout of Gmail -- a development that would heighten Google's competition for usage and advertising dollars with Yahoo and Microsoft's both of which offer free Web-based email services as well.
Some subscribers to Gmail -- which since it launched has been available only by invitation from Google or current users of the service -- this week discovered that they had 50 invitations to Gmail that they can pass on to friends and acquaintances.
Previously, Google has doled out no more than a half-dozen invitations at a time to Gmail users.
A Google spokesman confirmed Friday that some users of the service were getting an increased number of invitations, saying it was part of Google's continuing efforts to expand the service. The spokesman, however, wouldn't provide any information about when Google might bring Gmail out of its test phase into general release.
Last month stats by Overture for people searching to get into GMail totaled 1,298,386 this is the opening of a brand new territory. That's
about 15 million people a year you can make money from. See more now!
Gmail Profits
So those who get in early will reap the rewards.
Google's email service has stopped playing hard to get.
Google's Gmail, operated on a test basis since last spring, this week dramatically increased the potential number of users of the Web-based service.
The move could mean Google is getting ready for a public rollout of Gmail -- a development that would heighten Google's competition for usage and advertising dollars with Yahoo and Microsoft's both of which offer free Web-based email services as well.
Some subscribers to Gmail -- which since it launched has been available only by invitation from Google or current users of the service -- this week discovered that they had 50 invitations to Gmail that they can pass on to friends and acquaintances.
Previously, Google has doled out no more than a half-dozen invitations at a time to Gmail users.
A Google spokesman confirmed Friday that some users of the service were getting an increased number of invitations, saying it was part of Google's continuing efforts to expand the service. The spokesman, however, wouldn't provide any information about when Google might bring Gmail out of its test phase into general release.
Last month stats by Overture for people searching to get into GMail totaled 1,298,386 this is the opening of a brand new territory. That's
about 15 million people a year you can make money from. See more now!
Gmail Profits
So those who get in early will reap the rewards.
posted by dataminer at 9:33 AM
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