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Google Plans Rival E-mail Service
(BBC)
Google, the world's most popular internet search engine, plans to offer an e-mail service called Gmail in a bid to rival Yahoo and Microsoft's Hotmail.
The new service promises to take away the need to delete unwanted messages and organise e-mail according to topic.
The service is still being tested and not yet generally available, but will be offered for free on www.gmail.com.
Google mail provides one gigabyte of storage - many times more than existing rivals that also offer free e-mail.
Each user would have storage equivalent to 500,000 pages of e-mail, said Google.
Idea followed complaints
The idea came to one of Google's founders, Larry Page, after listening to complaints from a Google user. She said she was spending all her time filing messages or trying to find them and "deleting like crazy" just to keep within the storage limits. She asked, "Can't you people fix this?"
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