Here is some data
Index size
* ~ 1998: ~ 25,000,000
* August 2000: 1,060,000,000
* January 2002: 2,073,000,000
* February 2003: 3,083,000,000
* September 2004: 4,285,000,000
* November 2004: 8,058,044,651 web pages, 880,000,000 images, 845,000,000 messages, 4,500 [...]

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Today I got an email from a friend of mine…..lol

I think gmail has started dumb advertising :P. While searching on google or on Adsense Ads one finds lot of Ebay’s automatically generated Ads. They just add the keyword with the predefined text.
%key_word%
%key_word% for sale. aff checkout the deals now!
and the link is pointed to [...]

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Yesterday noticed a cool thing @ Gmail.

On clicking that link u see

I think Gmail is the first email provider to let the users report phishing. I am not sure when it was introduced as I noticed it yesterday.
and also….
Today I noticed that one of the fwds. had embeded images in it . Till yesterday [...]

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Yes! Finally I’ve been POPed
I saw the vital signs

Changed the settings

and there was the final result

…but believe me you won’t like it that much….I miss the labels. Even the headers of the mails are messedup?? All the emails from Gmail Team regarding the invitations I sent out were dated 11/16/2004 and had [...]

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Gmail supports a lot of Email clients. The list can be found in the comments for my old post.
Although my Gmail doesn’t show that I have the pop access yet, I still gave it a shot and downloaded Gmail’s utility for pop settings for Outlook Express. My account didn’t work for pop but [...]

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Over the next several weeks, we are introducing POP access to all of our users. To make sure the feature is fully stable, we’re giving users access to POP in phases. Once POP access is available to you, a ‘New Features!’ link appears at the top of your account, along with a ‘Forwarding and POP’ [...]

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I have been using Gmail since Apr. 21st 2004. I loved all its features and the 1000 mb space
I still remmember when a lot of people requested for the Signature option and gmail team responded with the same in cpl. month’s time. I was also happy after they introduced the feature, but now [...]

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An interesting article was posted at /. today. The article suggested that Google Images might be blocking images from Abu Ghraib incident, whereas its competitors show the images. Later an update was posted, according to which Sergey, the co-founder of Google, admitted that Google wasn’t censoring the image but the image index is not updated [...]

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