I now have a Gmail account. I have heard the controversy regarding the ads and the reality that Gmail reads your messages. I decided to try a simple test. I sent a simple message to myself from another of my mail accounts – “Have you seen the new Mac Mini?” – just to see what would happen when I open the message. See below:
What do you expect for a free service?
It looks to be a nice system. I could not imagine the value of 1000 megabytes of storage space. The material that comes with system suggests you archive any message you may ever want to read again and then locate it with the Google search features. Makes sense.
The system appears to have some spam defense mechanisms. A good spam system on a free system would be impressive.
New York Times (Pogue) analysis (may need to register).
