Why Google's GMail will be a success!
I have only been using GMail for a day and I can instantly feel that Google have another success on their hands.
At the moment GMail isn't available to the public, but as a Blogger user (the Google-owned software that generates this page) I was given an opportunity to be part of the testing team of GMail before it is generally released.
They are marketing it in several ways; the fact they are giving you 1Gb of storage which is many many times larger than Hotmail or other webmail services and the broader concept of searching through your entire message history to find emails. However, I think that the place it will score most will be at eliminating spam (junk mail) from the inbox. The technology they have developed to elimiate bad results from the search engines is perfectly suited to characterising unwanted emails.
On first impressions the other main obvious feature is the way that it organises emails. Each conversation exchange is kept together in a single page (thread - to use a term from messageboards) with collapsable messages within that thread. This has the effect of making your inbox is a lot less cluttered (especially if it stay's spam-free too). It feels like a very natural way to organise your inbox, and I am an instant fan.
The privacy issues that have surrounded it's launch are widely discussed, but I think that Google will win and people will use it, even with the ads and issues.
At the moment GMail isn't available to the public, but as a Blogger user (the Google-owned software that generates this page) I was given an opportunity to be part of the testing team of GMail before it is generally released.
They are marketing it in several ways; the fact they are giving you 1Gb of storage which is many many times larger than Hotmail or other webmail services and the broader concept of searching through your entire message history to find emails. However, I think that the place it will score most will be at eliminating spam (junk mail) from the inbox. The technology they have developed to elimiate bad results from the search engines is perfectly suited to characterising unwanted emails.
On first impressions the other main obvious feature is the way that it organises emails. Each conversation exchange is kept together in a single page (thread - to use a term from messageboards) with collapsable messages within that thread. This has the effect of making your inbox is a lot less cluttered (especially if it stay's spam-free too). It feels like a very natural way to organise your inbox, and I am an instant fan.
The privacy issues that have surrounded it's launch are widely discussed, but I think that Google will win and people will use it, even with the ads and issues.
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