Topic: googles gmail

[sharon159]

anyone have gmail and what are your thoughts?

[davy51]

I have a gmail account

It has worked fine for me

some have had different problems with it

but as i say it has worked fine for me

[Simon]

I have a gmail account, which I use mostly for signing up on forums, etc.  I find it's a good service, and I use the POP3 facility, but anyone signing up should pay attention to the privacy policy.  When using the webmail service, targetted ads appear on the site, based on Google's software scanning parts of your emails.  It may not be something to worry about, but just to be aware of.

Google Mail isn't a traditional webmail account. There are no pop-ups, untargeted banner ads or warnings urging you to buy more storage. Google Mail, however, will often place a few highly relevant, text ads adjacent to the body of your email. You'll also see links to related web pages you might find of interest.

These ads and links are displayed automatically using the same technology that powers our AdSense system, which delivers targeted ads to thousands of sites across the web. Computers scan the text on a given page, perform a mathematical analysis on it and match it to ads in our extensive database. No humans are involved in this process and no one reads your mail. You may find that hard to believe when you see how closely the ads match the topic of your message.

[sam]

i use it a huge amount, well I use lots and lots of google's service, from their calendar to maps to online document writing (yep they have a word processing tool and spreadsheets).... I love google and gmail is so easy and nice to use, I really think their webinterface is the best I have ever come across and would be nice to see in a desktop equivalent in a sense