Comments on: Google Drops A Bomb

By: Cerasoli

Cerasoli — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 00:28:55 +0000

I have 10 invites with nobody to send them to. Send me an email at finvarra@gmail.com and I will send you one.

By: Jeremy Flint

Jeremy Flint — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 21:06:33 +0000

Right Scrivs. I have been using Gmail since June 04, have well over 1000 messages, 31mb worth, and that is only 3% of my 1gb storage.

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 20:59:45 +0000

1gig is cheap, but you the main point to consider is that maybe only 1%-3% of the people will actually reach up to a gig in email space.

By: cliche

cliche — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 20:19:49 +0000

I don’t really remember where I first saw it, but a quick search got me a similar article:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65106,00.html

By: Jeremy Flint

Jeremy Flint — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:52:19 +0000

Interesting Cliche.

Do you remember where you read that information?

By: cliche

cliche — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 18:52:06 +0000

Jeremy: I read somewhere that the reason why Google News is still in beta is solely due to legal issues. I mean, it’s finished by all standards. If they go live with it, they would put some ads on the page–without which, it wouldn’t generate a cent of revinue.

But having a finished commercial site somehow violates the ‘fair use’ statute of copyright law. You may ask how it’s any different than a regular search: Honestly, i don’t know. But according to some lawyers, it’s different.

And as opposed to regular search that generally help the linked companies, linking news takes away ad revenues from newspapers: They’d much rather you go through their whole site instead of bits. So most of those newspapers are pissed as is, and owned by media giants who’re just waiting to sic their blood hungry lawyers at Google. So the speculation is, Google news will be in perma-beta, and will just serve as a feature–not moneymaker–for Google.

By: Jeremy Flint

Jeremy Flint — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:16:10 +0000

Sup Ian.

A Gig of hard drive space is cheap. I mean, you can buy a 120gb SuperATA drive for about $100.

Besides, Google is making money off the adsense that are included when you view e-mails.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:12:57 +0000

It is interesting that they have given so many invites out recently. They obviously know that people freely auction them off on their blogs so maybe they want to test their server capability with the new load that will come. How much do these servers cost Google, by the way? 1gig/user doesn’t sound like a lot until you have millions of users…

By: Jeremy Flint

Jeremy Flint — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:09:39 +0000

As someone pointed out the other day, GoogleNews has been in beta for well over a year now…maybe close to two.

By: cliche

cliche — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:59:47 +0000

Is anyone else guessing that they’re pretty close to getting rid of the beta tag? It’s about time they start finishing some projects.

By: Bryan Peters

Bryan Peters — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:52:50 +0000

I've been giving my invites away to strangers using the super-simple form at isnoop.net