is gmail down?

[Voltron87]

that doesnt explain why a free service is worth billions of dollars.

[smoore]

gmail pop3 back up

[ArthurD]

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that doesnt explain why a free service is worth billions of dollars.

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Where do you think they make money from? Advertising, of course. When you get millions of page views a day, and have the ability to sell multiple impressions per page view, and sell *highly* targeted advertising space.. You become a billionaire.

[ricochet420]

Works for me all day now. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[eastbay]

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that doesnt explain why a free service is worth billions of dollars.

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Advertising ain't free. They are raking in hundreds of millions every quarter with their ads.

eastbay

[Jaden]

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What software? Their search engine? Is it really worth $1,000,000,000?

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No, it's worth $30,000,000,000 [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Jaden

[ds914]

Thanks to that dang SI article, twoplustwo.com is sure to crack the top 5. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[irishken]

Is it working correctly to everyone else now? I have been able to login whole week until this morning.

WTF