Google offering free e-mail service

It will let users receive attachments up to 10mb in size and have 1gb of storage for their e-mail. However, be sure to read the Terms of Service. Ads will be targeted based on the contents of the e-mails you receive and send. Read the whole story here: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=562&ncid=738&e=1&u=/ap/20040401/ap_on_hi_te/google_e_mail

Here is Google's privacy policy. They are straightforward about it all, if people bother to look. http://www.google.com/gmail/help/privacy.html says, in part,

How we deliver targeted content to you

We never share your personally identifying information with any advertiser as part of this service, unless you specifically ask us to do so. When you are logged into your Gmail account, Google will display targeted ads and other relevant information based on the content of the email displayed. In a completely automated process, computers process a limited set of text in a message and match it to ads or related information in Google's extensive database. No human reads your mail to target ads or other information without your consent . We do not keep a record of either the specific ads you clicked on or related web pages that you view. We do log non-personal, aggregated data about how which ads and how many ads are displayed and clicked on in Gmail.

This message was edited Apr 1, 2004 4:24 PM