Comments on: If Google Wants to Make an Extra Billion Dollars Tomorrow…

By: dmbgg

dmbgg — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:33:10 +0000

Dear Gmail,

Can we please have free webhosting. We would also like unlimited bandwith.

Thanks.

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:03:24 +0000

They already make tons of money through gmail with ads. That’s their thing, ads. Google does not make app money through charging clients. But Google will never charge users.

By: God

God — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:10:17 +0000

Go get em Mike!

Fuck these typical haters!

It’s just a website comment system. Nothing More! Even if you were “under the influence”.

Fuckin haters.

Yeah MadMike FanClub!

By: I love it

I love it — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:17:52 +0000

“commenting under the influence”

LOL…I love it.

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:32:57 +0000

Should they ever start charging for service, I’ll take my business elsewhere. Simple as that.

By: MadMike

MadMike — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:17:25 +0000

Wow. I have garnered a fan base. Nice.

Also, Reagan was still president when I was 15. I was using vulgarity because 1.) I’m an asshole and 2.) I had a few drinks in me.

Furthermore, I’m a firefighter by day (or night) but took a little engineering side job I do over the internet.

Last but not least, I _didn’t_ say I would sue. I merely stated that I would be litigiously pissed if it was a pay service. It’s not a pay service and it just happened to go down when I was expecting an important email. It had actually nothing to do with work or business, but a cruise I’m going on in December. It went down at the wrong time and I made a drunk comment. The more I got flamed, the further downhill it went. That’s it. Plain and simple.

Do you want to apologize for commenting under the influence?

Chill out bud. It’s a website comment system – nothing more.

By: MadMike is a moron

MadMike is a moron — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:57:03 +0000

First, BGR – what good is comment moderation when you let madmike go at it? If there was ever a need to moderate – he would be it.

Second, madmike represents all that is wrong with America. Something goes wrong – sue. Even when the damages are non-existent. It’s a free service that experienced a small hiccup for an hour. Big freaking deal.

And finally – I’m really sure that madmike had nothing important in his email. He certainly isn’t a professional. He can’t run his own business (who would deal with him)? He’s obviously a 15 year old punk kid, incapable of doing anything other than using vulgarity in a weak attempt to debate another individual.

By: will

will — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:32:43 +0000

no way in
h. e. double l
will i pay for a free email client, unless as others commented, it included push email, contacts calendar, etc

By: pete

pete — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:32:43 +0000

Ok dude your check is in the mail for .001 of a cent due to the lost hour of 1 dollar service for a month. Your living in dreamland waisting peoples time.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:01:46 +0000

What makes GMail so valuable for me is its conversation-based message list. It’s infinitely easier to keep track of the conversation with threaded messages right there.

By: David

David — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:03:42 +0000

The pop service was never interrupted. Only the webmail application was down. I had zero interruptions all day and I am set to auto receive every 3 min. Whether Gmail was a a paid service or a free service, nothing is ever going to be 100% perfect. Errors occur and it’s a part of life. It doesn’t require lawsuits, stress, or anger. It simply requires something a lot of people don’t have in this day and age. It’s called having some friggin’ patience! If your whole life revolves around Gmail or Google Apps, then you do not have a life. This 30 minute interruption of service should have been a godsend for you people. It gave you 30 minutes to go take a walk, grab some coffee, call your loved ones. Come on people, seriously? It was 30 minutes…..

By: olmo47

olmo47 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:15:49 +0000

Hey I wont pay, i move on!!!

By: miklm

miklm — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:02:56 +0000

As others said though, Google is making a LOT more than that off ads. I’ve done some work for clients that involved setting up Adsense accounts as both an advertiser and a site that ran ads, and there’s a lot of money pumped through Adsense every hour of every day. They offer paid Gmail with no ads — Google Apps for business clients. But they wouldn’t throw away half the client base for a few million dollars per month.

By: miklm

miklm — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:57:48 +0000

@Glenn: I’ve had Gmail since April 1, 2004 (launch day) and I can’t remember the last outage. That said, there are some days I’d gladly pay for an email server outage, just to stop the madness that is work and take a long lunch break.

I never even noticed they were down; my “real” email is Exchange at work, personal mail (at my domain) is on Google Apps. If they dropped the free service, I’d pay whatever fee because its been dead reliable and works better than any email service I’ve used in the past 12 years.

If Yahoo and Hotmail and others are comprable today, its only because Gmail raised the bar to where it is. Remember when Gmail launched with 1 GB of storage? Hotmail offered 2 MB at the time.

By: Booyaa

Booyaa — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:52:12 +0000

Why did you think you should post this article?

By: Hinano

Hinano — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:52:00 +0000

lol if that happened goodbye gmail o_o;

By: Glenn

Glenn — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:24:33 +0000

Honestly I’ve had GMail for over a year now and can’t remember the last outtage.

By: Zach Epstein

Zach Epstein — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:02:27 +0000

You guys don’t pay for anything that’s also ad supported? No SaaS such as Last.fm? No cable TV?

I would gladly pay $1/month for Gmail. Tons of storage, amazingly reliable, best spam filtering I’ve ever experienced, solid IMAP, and so on.

In any event, the $1/month concept was merely to highlight how many people are extremely reliant on Gmail. As in; so many people are reliant on Gmail that if they each paid a dollar, Google would make a billion in a day. Not factual, not reality-based…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:49:28 +0000

Yeah, if they started to charge they would hemorrhage customers! There are too many free email services out there for Google to even THINK about going paid and not retaining a free version. Plus, Gmail is Ad supported, so the more customers they have, the more money they make.

By: Newy

Newy — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:16:19 +0000

Something tells me the value of the ads displayed to Gmail users is > $1 per month per user. So the acceptable sacrifice of user base to charge $1 would have to be based on the ad revenue lost vs the subscription revenue gained…

This ignores users who use POP or IMAP to pull their mail into a 3rd party client.

By: badChad

badChad — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:45:47 +0000

With all the free email services out there, I don’t think I’d pay for it.

The only appreciable difference with gmail seems to be the spam filter. It works like magic.

By: TJ

TJ — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:48:17 +0000

I have a gmail account, and while I’ve had great service, I still can’t figure out why everyone likes over everything else. What makes gmail so different? I almost feel like it’s “tech-hip” at the moment, thus the massive. I use mobileme just for the push email…outside that, the web client interface is terrible.

By: Inc

Inc — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:39:43 +0000

Good lord boys

Google will never do such a thing & even if it did. I would be more then glad to pay them one freaking dollar per month for all the freaking services they provide. I can’t imagine how much time & energy & hassle I have saved my self from using google & its apps.

@madmike. Quit your bitchin.

By: Dev

Dev — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:14:41 +0000

Jesus Christ, I went crazy when it went down!
Although, don’t you dare put such ideas in their head!!!!

By: cacao

cacao — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:04:35 +0000

LEAVE MADMIKE ALOOOOOOOOOONE!!!!!!!
HE’S HUMAN!!!!!!!!!!

By: patrickem

patrickem — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:51:04 +0000

Weird my Gmail worked flawlessly all day, and really what the hell down for a half hour and the world explodes, what a load of crap.

By: twincitydude

twincitydude — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:42:20 +0000

madmike, holy shit….if a one hour outage of a FREE BETA service gets you this mad… i feel sorry for anyone that has to deal with you in real life.

By: MadMike

MadMike — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:19:02 +0000

I said I was pissed and said I would get litigious if it was a paid service. It’s free, so I’m just angry and not even anymore because I drank enough Jim Beam. So right now I couldn’t give two shits and a fuck.

Oh and 100 pages of complaints on twitter alone, not to mention the 3500 or so posts on the Gmail Down google group. Yeah, like I’m the only one.

Fucking Assclowns. I’m MadMike for a reason – because I’m always fucking angry. Get it cuntrags?

By: Wow

Wow — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:57:45 +0000

@madmike

WTF guy? Typical Apple user, stop smoking that pole. Arbitration for a dollar/month service? You need a taste of real life you little bitch.

If you needed a real email on the go, you’d have a blackberry and not an iFudgePacker

By: QR

QR — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:36:31 +0000

http://search.twitter.com/search?max_id=884785160&page=100&q=gmail+down

100 pages of complaints…and that probably barely scratches the userbase.