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March 31, 2004

April Fool's Day prediction

So, BoingBoing and nytimes.com have both run notices about a new service, GMail, that Google is going to launch. Tomorrow. April 1, 2004.

I totally think this is a prank, and I can't wait to see red faces in the morning.

Yay for April Fool's Day!

UPDATE: Google does have a prank up for April Fool's Day -- if you go to www.google.com and click on "Want a job that's out of this world" you get a really spiffy set of pages about their new lunar research facility, the Google Copernicus Hosting Environment and Experiment in Search Engineering (G.C.H.E.E.S.E.).

However, I simply can't believe that Google would launch a new service for real on April 1st. Also, why is there no information about it on their front page? If you search on "gmail" using Google, you'll find that there are several other projects using the name "gmail" (Linux-y stuff, I think). I invite you to check out gmail.google.com and let me know what you think.

Posted by Rose at March 31, 2004 10:40 PM

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