Google babble

Google new beta Gmail service has created quite a buzz. I dont see how they are going to make money off of Gmail. Would you actually put your valuable information on Gmail if you knew that there are privacy issues and you are basically signing up so Google can learn about your habits on the Web ? This would just dilute the information on Gmail.

Google's value for the web is search - the technology that makes it easy for people to find information they need/want - not in controlling the information Google or anyone else thinks you want/need. This is why people use Google. The premise that they need to store people's emails to organise and search it effectively sounds lame to me. My PC already does that for me. Its searching for information out there beyond my control that's an unsolved problem for me as WWW user. I also do not think private information should be snooped and organized by any service on the web - if i needed that i'd have it on the public domain anyway.

I do like one thing i read in Gmail's FAQ page - POP3 access to emails could happen in the future. Hey it will be like the dot-com times when yahoo and others had it for free.