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Jun

25

2004

What’s in a (gmail) name?

Posted in the Category of In the News

I confess... I was so eager to snatch up [deleted]@gmail.com (sorry, don't want to give it out) I ventured onto ebay about 2 weeks ago, typed in "gmail account" and started bidding. Having never bought anything on ebay it took me a few tries. Oh, goody, I thought; it will only cost $3.00. But I kept losing the auctions. Finally I realized someone was bidding it waaay up at the last minute. So I gulped and bid $21. OK, I'm a little embarrassed. I spent 20 bucks on something that's free? But I really wanted that email address... Eric Eggertson writes from Canada: "People are scrambling to get the best e-mail addresses (most plain-English titles aren’t available). Is that because Google isn’t offering them, or someone has snapped them all up? (Seems like) everyone who had to settle for a Hotmail or Yahoo name that was obscure and full of meaningless numbers now has a chance to get a gmail account that is closer to what they want." And how is gmail? My initial infatuation is wearing off. It doesn't have a "save draft" function (really annoying). And now that Yahoo has upped its storage and revamped its interface I'm not convinced gmail is the next new thing. More later about the ads showing up in my gmails...

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