Email is the killer app

Larry and Sergey said in a recent interview that Email was MORE important than search and that is the reason they got into the email business.

They mentioned that folks spent a greater percentage of their time using email then searching.

Any articles on this subject would be welcomed, since I lost the one I was going to post. I will go find it.

 

No doubt a great move by Google also and as they're using the invite system (The same as they're doing with orkut) its also an invaluable source of data as far as tracking social networking is concerned

 

How is tracking who they invite invaluable- all they are seeing is a change from to

 

An article in Infoworld details what it would be like with a Google Desktop. In fact, with a Google Supercomputer behind GMail, spam could easily be marked with almost zero false positives. Google would have so much email cached, the anti-spam analytics would be easy.

 

This is a valid statement, but I believe they are just using it to phase GMAIL up to full speed. Having an open invite right off the bat would have horrible load issues. Look at Yahoo when they decided to up their storage.

 

Good article TB, really I have seen similar articles on the "search OS" I have a page on the so called search OS on my website.

I put the article on the page.


Thank you for posting it.

 

I don't have a Gmail account so I can't comment on how much personal profile info Google ask for (or is optional to add with your account) when you sign-up but if its anything like orkut there's loads of scope for data mining on how communities grow and tracking marketing demographics.

Not that im suggesting there's anything underhanded or sinister going on, simply pointing out that there's more ways for services like Gmail and orkut to provide Google with revenue idea's for future products (or improved revenue for existing ones) than simply well targeted advertising.

 

"Not that im suggesting there's anything underhanded or sinister going on"

The above quote is by Gooner

There is always something underhanded and sinister going on in business, if there were no bad practices used we would not have antitrust laws in place.

Some folks hate M$ others hate Google, Sun hated M$ for years until they seen the light of going broke. They have kissed and made up with Mr. Gates.

Funny the things folks will do for money, a hungry man will steal food to stay alive.

Business is MEAN BUSINESS, look at Enron, WorldCom, AOL/TimeWarner, there is alway some sort of minipulation going on in large enterprises.

How do you think lawyers and judges make a living.

 

If everyone started using digital signatures, they could add accepted signatures to their email program. Any email that arrived without a known signature would be moved to the junk mail folder pending acceptance, or just outright deleted. Of course, that would make it difficult to just hand out your email address and have someone email you. You would first need to go to their web page and accept their digital signature into your email program. It's a nice thought anyway.