
By Stephen Shankland
Published: Wednesday 19 May 2004
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Name
Angus Doyle
Location
Bristol
Occupation
IT Director
Comment
This announcement seems to be one of 2 things. First being a marketing ploy to push its competitors over the limit. Secondly and more likely it seems that they are trying too hard to lure people in to sign up. Seeing as information is king, the persons with access to this will indeed control the way we think. Yet I feel that if there plan is to use adwords in the email messages, the run the risk of saturating the market, people will get immune to the adverts after little time. The bottom line is that there is no such thing as a free lunch, no doubt we will be subjected to targeted SPAM!!!! and I am still suspicous of the privacy issues.
I will wait with anticipation, personally I think google is starting on a slippery slope, and there is more government involvement than they are admitting. Take Heed google, if people lose trust, people start looking elsewhere. I will be blocking access to this service, in order to protect our company and staff. 1 terrabit of storage could transfer a lot of confidential company information out of our company.
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