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To: lurqer who wrote (40935)	3/31/2004 6:22:11 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Re: Under sworn testimony, Armitage contradicted Rice's claim the White House had a strategy before Sept. 11 that called for military operations against al-Qaida and the Taliban. This story gets more convoluted every day. Fortunately, we have the new Air America talk radio hosts to simplify the story: airamericaradio.com Message 19972210 <font color=red>KISS: <font size=5><font color=blue>THE SIMPLE TRUTH IS THAT THE WHITE HOUSE IS INFESTED WITH <font size=7><font color=red>LIARS

To: lurqer who wrote (40935)	4/1/2004 12:52:38 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Google to offer gigabyte of free e-mail _____________________ By Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com news.com.com Story last modified March 31, 2004, 3:57 PM PST Google, the company that made off with the search market, is setting its sights on free e-mail. The company, based in Mountain View, Calif., on Wednesday will launch a test with about 1,000 invited guests to try out a new e-mail service called "Gmail." Google, which made its name in search but has added numerous services, such as a news aggregation page and a newsgroup interface, says that Gmail is search-based e-mail. Like Yahoo Mail and MSN Hotmail, Gmail will let users search through their e-mail. Unlike those competitors, though, Google will offer enough storage so that the average e-mail account holder will never have to delete messages. Hotmail currently offers 2MB of free e-mail storage. Yahoo offers 4MB. Gmail will dwarf those offerings with a 1GB storage limit. Google plans to make money from the service by inserting advertisements into messages based in part on their content, effectively extending its AdWords program for presenting contextual ads in Web pages to e-mail. "The idea is that your mail can stay in there forever," said Wayne Rosing, vice president of engineering at Google. "You can always index it, always search it, and always find things from the past." When asked whether Gmail represented further evidence that Google is muscling in on the turf of Yahoo, MSN and other Web portals, Rosing demurred. "The way we'd like to say it is that part of our mission is to organize and present all the world's information, and e-mail's part of that information that currently is not well organized. That is the rubric under which we offer this." Copyright ©1995-2003 CNET Networks, Inc. All rights reserved.