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Josh Hambright
01-04-2005, 10:09
Google, definately has a sense of humor. I've noticed several things that seem very much like a good old fashion april fools joke on their site. Including this one which is way to good to be true:
http://www.google.com/googlegulp/
AIBob
01-04-2005, 10:52
Google, definately has a sense of humor. I've noticed several things that seem very much like a good old fashion april fools joke on their site. Including this one which is way to good to be true:
http://www.google.com/googlegulp/
Google's great, maybe in a few years they'll actually make the drink.. but not likely, they are an information serving company.
Not sure if it is an April fools joke, but on gmail it seems that the mailbox limit is actively increasing, my mailbox isn't full so I can't test it out, but it shows a number for the max size, and if you refresh it a few seconds later it increases, also on the intro page it is increasing without refreshing it...
Joe Matt
01-04-2005, 11:01
Google's great, maybe in a few years they'll actually make the drink.. but not likely, they are an information serving company.
Not sure if it is an April fools joke, but on gmail it seems that the mailbox limit is actively increasing, my mailbox isn't full so I can't test it out, but it shows a number for the max size, and if you refresh it a few seconds later it increases, also on the intro page it is increasing without refreshing it...

I read a news story, it looks like they will be increasing the size of Gmail accounts, hopefully this isn't an April Fools joke, but it looks real as it's on the AP circuit.

I'm at 1400MB now :)
Emily Pease
01-04-2005, 11:08
Oh my, that's hilarious. I love google. Have you seen the privacy policy?

Google Gulp and Your Privacy
From time to time, in order to improve Google Gulp's usefulness for our users, Google Gulp will send packets of data related to your usage of this product from a wireless transmitter embedded in the base of your Google Gulp bottle to the GulpPlex™, a heavily guarded, massively parallel server farm whose location is known only to Eric Schmidt, who carries its GPS coordinates on a 64-bit-encrypted smart card locked in a stainless-steel briefcase handcuffed to his right wrist. No personally identifiable information of any kind related to your consumption of Google Gulp or any other current or future Google Foods product will ever be given, sold, bartered, auctioned off, tossed into a late-night poker pot, or otherwise transferred in any way to any untrustworthy third party, ever, we swear.

Beta carroty!!!

I'm at 1400MB now :)

I'm at 1405! This is great!
Joe Matt
01-04-2005, 11:16
If you go on the main site, it looks like the storage is increasing steadaly, so by midnight tonight we'll have....


2 gigs of space! :ahh:
Emily Pease
01-04-2005, 11:42
AH! I just noticed they added rich-text formatting to gmail, too! I can't wait to make bulleted lists and italicize and justify!

Oh, happy day!
KTorak
01-04-2005, 11:45
Hey...cool trick I just discovered.

Set your system clock ahead a few hours. Your storage increases :D

When set 24 Hour in Advance from now:
The gift that keeps on giving.
Over 2000 megabytes of storage (and counting) for every user.
Greg Needel
01-04-2005, 12:10
google is doing these pranks in conjunction with slashdot's april fools news...i think most things will go back to normal tomorrow.....for other fun tech stories today www.slashdot.org
Adam Richards
01-04-2005, 12:15
1443MB on gmail... ahhh... I love extra storage space... Quick! Lets fill it up, so that when gmail resets it to 1gig, we're stuck with 2 gigs!
Joe Matt
01-04-2005, 12:16
google is doing these pranks in conjunction with slashdot's april fools news...i think most things will go back to normal tomorrow.....for other fun tech stories today www.slashdot.org (http://www.slashdot.org)

No no, this IS NOT a joke. This is REAL guys.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050401/google_gmail.html?.v=4
KTorak
01-04-2005, 12:17
Uhh, I honestly think that the 2 GB will stay. Storage is fairly cheap these days *and prices continue to drop*. Yahoo also supposively released 1 GB storage. But honestly, who would use 2 GB of storage? I think the 2 GB is here to stay.
Adam Richards
01-04-2005, 12:24
KTorak, GmailFS (http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html)?
KTorak
01-04-2005, 12:27
KTorak, GmailFS (http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html)?

Well, if you use it for file storage, you'll hti 2 GB. I easily have 5 GB of music on my PC :P
Emily Pease
01-04-2005, 13:00
No no, this IS NOT a joke. This is REAL guys.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050401/google_gmail.html?.v=4
I thought he was saying that Google Gulp is a joke, which is actually supposed to be the main topic here.
Joe Matt
01-04-2005, 13:20
I thought he was saying that Google Gulp is a joke, which is actually supposed to be the main topic here.

I know the Gulp is the joke, but some people are doubting the Gmail hike in size, so there is the link...

For a recap...

Google Gulp = April Fools
Gmail 2Gig = REAL
Adam Y.
01-04-2005, 13:43
Google Gulp = April Fools
Gmail 2Gig = REAL
Check gmails website again. They have upped their webstorage to infinity plus one.
Adam Richards
01-04-2005, 13:48
Gmail turns 1 today. And we've always loved a good joke. We know we won't reach infinity, but check out what we will do ...
^ Too bad infinity + 1 isn't real...
Wetzel
01-04-2005, 14:09
Well, if you use it for file storage, you'll hti 2 GB. I easily have 5 GB of music on my PC :P

Thats what the 50 invites are for. 50*2=100GB. Allows me more room to grow my music collection. I've slowed down ripping my cds because I'm approching the 40gb of my music harddrive. Guess it's about time to repartition again.

Wetzel
Adam Y.
01-04-2005, 16:53
^ Too bad infinity + 1 isn't real...
Yeah it is. It's just inifnity. It's odd but but it does work out that way.
Mike
01-04-2005, 17:14
If you guys truly want to get that technical about it, it isn't an infinite amount of storage. Even a company as large as Google has hardware limitations.
Adam Y.
01-04-2005, 18:02
If you guys truly want to get that technical about it, it isn't an infinite amount of storage. Even a company as large as Google has hardware limitations.
Well I think we were talking about how you can't have one more than infinity but mathematically one more than infinity is still infinity. Though technically it resembles this more: N+1 Take the limit as n goes to inifinity. The answer is inifinity. Calculus is fun. It's impossible to have an infinite amount of anything right now.:)