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Article: Google Gmail Banks on Goodwill; Eager Users Overlook Program's Snoop Factor.
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- Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN)
- Article date:
- April 2, 2004
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Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo
Apr. 2--Would you use a free personal e-mail service if you knew it read your messages before you did? Brant Skogrand would without hesitation. So would Mary Linneborg.
They were eager to sign up for "Gmail," a new free Web e-mail service introduced Thursday by Google, the world's most popular search engine. Gmail would offer 1 gigabyte of storage space -- 250 to 500 times the storage space of the leading Web-based e-mail services offered by Yahoo and Microsoft's Hotmail or enough for 500,000 pages of conventional e-mail.
You could use Google's technology to search through your mail, eliminating time-consuming ...