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However, we realize that after five years, this leaves some of you wrestling with some tough questions. How will you ever get used to using Gmail without that familiar grey "BETA" text greeting you when you log in everyday? What example will you cite the next time you make an internet joke about perpetual betas?
Almost every action you took required the service to reload the entire web page, resulting in an experience that had none of the snappy responsiveness of a Windows or Mac program. That made it feel more like software than a sequence of web pages. The more JavaScript that Gmail used, the more sophisticated it could get. Instead, with the aim of making it easier to follow discussion threads, all the messages in a given back-and-forth string were collected into a cluster called a conversation, with any duplicated text automatically concealed.
Some within Google advocated for it being a paid service, but Buchheit and others wanted the service to reach as many people as possible, which was an argument for it being free and supported by advertising. With other free email offerings of the time, that meant flashy graphical banner ads—the antithesis of the unobtrusive little text ads which, then as now, accompanied Google search results.
In an example Google used early on to explain the system, two ads for ticket agencies were displayed alongside a conversation that mentioned a Beach Boys concert. Other email services already scanned the text of incoming messages, to check for spam and viruses, for instance. But doing the same thing for advertising purposes was something new, and Google knew that some people might be creeped out by any tangible evidence that their messages had been read, even if the one doing the reading was a machine.
We decided it would be an issue of perception. For much of its development, Gmail had been a skunkworks project, kept secret even from most people within Google.
It was time to settle on a schedule for a public announcement. The date the company selected was April 1. It figured, correctly, that announcing Gmail at the same time would lead some people to think that the announcement was a prank.
Especially since the 1GB of space was unimaginably ginormous by standards. That was sufficient for the limited beta rollout the company planned, which involved giving accounts to a thousand outsiders, allowing them to invite a couple of friends apiece, and growing slowly from there. Once it was clear that Gmail was the real deal, the invitations became a hot property.
It was hailed as one of the best marketing decisions in tech history, but it was a little bit unintentional. The aura of exclusivity and experimentation stuck to Gmail long after it did grow huge. And Gmail wore its Beta label like a badge of honor until July of Some critics thought it invaded the privacy of the sender; others felt that the recipient was the party whose rights had been violated.
Fear of inappropriate placements—such as pharmaceutical ads next to an email concerning suicide—was a common theme.
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