Information Research Weblog

Google is in the news again - on the 5th October it issued a 'new features' message to users of Gmail, to the effect that it was trialling a new mail forwarding system, which would be free during the trial. This prompted commentators to speculate on what other features of Google in general would become revenue streams.

As it happens, I've been using Gmail as a beta user for the past couple of months and a review will appear in the October issue of Information Research, and I'm now hooked on it. It's 1Gb filestore, use of 'labels' to index messages, and grouping of messages into 'conversations' make it a real winner.