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:: Thursday, April 01, 2004 ::
Gmail marks new goal for Google By Paul Taylor, FT.com
Larry Page, Google's co-founder and president, says the idea for Gmail - the internet search heavyweight's new free e-mail service - came from a Google user complaining about the facilities of existing e-mail services such as Yahoo! Mail and Microsoft's Hotmail.
The idea caught the attention of a Google engineer who thought it might be a good "20 per cent time" project - Google requires engineers to spend a day a week on projects that interest them, unrelated to their day jobs.
"Millions of M&Ms later, Gmail was born," said the company in a quirkily worded press release put out yesterday with an April 1 dateline that had many journalists (including this one) wondering whether this was another April Fool's spoof. Gmail, however, turns out to be real.
Google Gmail Businesswire Release
Gmail beta by Google------------------------------------------- posted 4:06 PM :: reference link ::
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