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ReadyCompanies
11-04-2003, 05:31 PM
will Google offer free email to the masses

Yahoo is a good alternative to Google and they have the Yahoo Mail and the Messenger where one can search even from the console of the Messenger.
both of them have the Toolbar.

also Msn has Hotmail and other good content to keep surfers and searchers long enough on their website.

almost everyone here either has a Yahoo or a Hotmail
or some other free email address = right?

Daily use of Google

whereas one goes to Google and does a search and scoots away from the search results page
- the sooner the better;
ie = "Search took 0.13 seconds"
not even 1 miserable second

and maybe a few quick minutes running through the Top 10 or even maximum 50 results, all the search results evaluation time, hardly even glancing at the Sponsored Links

am i correct?

will Google follow these other giants so as to have a Sticky Factor ;
so that people will turn to Google not only for doing searches BUT also for other valid reasons.

therefore the value and the perceived friendliness and time spent on Google will go up and hopefully Google makes money and play its part in keeping the Internet FREE.

and be different compared to some who charge
US $ 299 with no real guarantee of acceptance
and still others
who charge US 39 per URL and if you have 30 pages then it will be more than US $1,000.

minstrel
11-05-2003, 12:05 AM
A few years back, many people seemed to feel that "portals" and "channels" were the wave of the future - Yahoo joined that wave - MSN was more-or-less already there. Google crept up behind the big players trying to be the first choice in search engines and leaving the portal business to others... and clearly they succeeded probably beyond their own predictions. I think to change that policy now would be a mistake they aren't likely to make.

softwaresubmit
11-05-2003, 12:44 PM
I don't really think, that free e-mail add any real value to Google.

Why should they do it...? How is it connected to their SE business?

I say, let Google concentrate on search engines and related tools, and the net will be a better place to search.