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Re: Gmail
What I find really hard to understand is the flippancy of the press release. I simply can't imagine a company on the run up to an IPO putting sentences like this in a real release:- - Search is Number Two Online Activity -- Email is Number One; "Heck, Yeah," Say Google Founders - Millions of M&Ms later, Gmail was born. - She kvetched about spending all her time filing messages So what's going on here? Is it market research into the value of a Google webmail service, disguised as an April Fool, disguised as a real beta release, and fed with carefully targeted reinforcement via people such as yourself. And all with plausible denyability if anyone calls them on it? How many levels has this thing got? They even fed the press on Mar 31 so that it would be all over the world on Apr 1, except that quite a lot of the online press published too fast on the same day and with no analysis or comment. The hacks simply paraphrased the press release without any attempt to question it.
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