ADVISORY/Experts
Available to Discuss Google Inc. to Offer ''Gmail''
[April 1, 2004]
Apr 01, 2004 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- TOPIC:
In an effort to compete with Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft
Corp., Google Inc. has announced its plan to offer a
free, Web-based e-mail service called "Gmail,"
according to an article by The Associated Press. The
service will allow users to search all sent and received
emails by using a built-in search function. "Gmail"
will offer free storage of up to 1 gigabyte, which can
store 500,000 pages of e-mail. The service will be made
available to the public in a few weeks.
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John Lee, is the marketing director
of Hostway Corp. As key spokesman for world's 5th largest
Web-hosting company, Lee can address issues relating
to managed Internet services, email (including "spam"),
ecommerce (including taxation of online transactions),
Web-site traffic boosting strategies, Web-design, small
business use of the Internet, and other Internet-related
trends and topics.
Brian McManus heads up the Search &
Directory division at InfoSpace, which operate metasearch
engines Dogpile.com, MetaCrawler.com, WebCrawler.com,
Excite.com and online Yellow and White Pages site InfoSpace.com.
McManus is an expert on search engine technology and
online Yellow and White Pages directories. Topics of
expertise include including search and directory technologies,
such as metasearch and clustering; and industry trends,
such as Local Search, paid search, Google IPO, Microsoft
search, search industry consolidation, and Search and
Directory pricing models. He can discuss the integration
of Search and Directory technologies and the future
of the search industry.
Robert Spiegel, editor of Mosaic Media's
"Marketing Smarter with Google", is an authority
on Google as an advertising platform. His focused, in-depth
coverage of the commercial side of Google, including
AdWords, AdSense and Froogle, provides a unique perspective
on search engine marketing. Spiegel is author of "Marketing
Smarter with Google," which delivers advisory articles,
original case studies, quick tips, resource alerts,
practical answers to questions, how-to features, and
exclusive interviews with search marketing experts.
"6 Sure-Fire Strategies for Google Success"
concisely covers what could be considered a Google Advertising
101 course.
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