My Google Mail Accont!

Created a google mail account today. The id is same as my yahoo id, with yahoo.com replaced by gmail.com (I don't want to post the id here out of fear of spam). Few things about google mail struck me immediately on creating the accout:

* 1 GB storage space! (and last week I was rejoicing that yahoo has increased the quota from 6 MB to 100 MB)
* Search facility on emails. So you can search email messages in your account just as you search information on Internet using google.com.
* Keyboard shortcuts. This one will be handy for me as I am a keyboard guy, not a frequent mouse user.
* Only text ads. This should make it much faster.

Another thing unique to Google is what it calls "Conversation View". When a message is opened, all messages related to the opened message are "stacked" behind the opened message, kind of creating a "tab" for each message. You can click on any tab and open that message.

GMail seems to be quite different and more user-friendly than other standard mail sites. One can trust google to come up with technology that leaves competition far behind. In the search engine space, it was power of Google's algorithm that killed competition. With mail, at first sight, it seems Google's USP will be user-friendliness that is unparalled in today's mail programs.

Btw, if you go to gmail.google.com, there's no option to create an account. I read somewhere that one way to create an account is to (actually) buy it! But I am not sure whether it's really true. I got mine for being a active blogger on blogspot. (blogspot being owned by google). Isn't it surprising that while there are millions of sites dying to attract users for creating mail accounts with them, there's google proudly saying, "We'll offer accounts to those we choose". It's a power only businesses that consumers believe deliver top quality products possess. And Google is undoubtedly among them.