Gmail

Gmail is a free POP3 and IMAP webmail service provided by Google.[1][2] In the United Kingdom and Germany it is officially called Google Mail.

Gmail launched on April 1, 2004 as an invitation-only beta release and became available to the general public on February 7, 2007. Although tens of millions of users [3][4][5] have taken advantage of stable releases for years, to this day the service remains in beta status.

With an initial storage capacity offer of 1 GB per user, Gmail significantly increased the webmail standard for free storage from the 2 to 4MB its competitors offered at that time. The service currently offers over 7250 MB of free storage with additional storage ranging from 10 GB to 400 GB available for $20 to $500 (US) per year.[6][7][8]

Gmail has a search-oriented interface and a "conversation view" similar to an Internet forum. Software developers know Gmail for its use of the Ajax programming technique.

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