So google is going to be offering a free e-mail service, called Gmail. It's yummy and should knock the socks off of hotmail, yahoo, and all the other competitors. I love google's philosophy that a company doesn't necessarily have to be evil in order to run their business or make money. So, because they've been great at doing what they've been doing so far, I have confidence they're gonna end up providing free or low-cost email the right way. I think Gmail will have non-instrusive contextual ads, which is not a problem ... Right now its in a beta stage, but hopefully soon they'll open up to the general public. Oh yeah, here's a little info about Gmail. They'll be offering 1GB of storage!!! That's slightly better than 4MB :)