Want to stay ahead?

I have stayed ahead of the general computing world by watching trends in the computing industry and making informed assessments based on me being an extremely lazy computer user. I need everything on a platter as I do not really have time to read manuals, learn command line commands, or even spend time thumbing through computer journals. That is the reason I waited for iBlog to launch this fantastic software for the Mac which has made blogging so so easy. (I now use the free blogspot.com site.)

Many of you are using Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL. These are inefficient, expensive in terms of time and also the money if one counts user spent time, prone to many problems related to spam and viruses, and also other limitations of the operating systems, such as the Windows platform.

May I humbly suggest that you start to look at a major leap in email technology that is coming very very soon - from the world's largest and most efficient search function provider, Google - something which is called Gmail. (I am not employed by Google!!)

Here is the comparison between Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo email service which appeared on the BBC World News website yesterday.

Gmail
Free 1,000 megabytes (MB) storage
No sorting or deleting needed
No pop-ups and banners
Spam filter and virus scan

MSN Hotmail
Free 2 MB storage
Up to 100MB costs $59.95 a year
Spam filter and virus scan

Yahoo
Free 4 MB storage
Up to 100MB costs $49.79 a year
Spam filter and virus scan

1000 MB storage space free compared to 2 MB and 4 MB from Hotmail and Yahoo, respectively, is a world of difference. The reason that Gmail will succeed is because it is based on a different level of thinking. Just imagine - NO SORTING OR DELETING NEEDED. It will make life for me, who gets over 300 to 500 emails a day, 365 days a year, just like heaven. It will be far more user friendly than either Hotmail or Yahoo mail.

Gmail will be considerably more intutive because of Google's success in the search engine technology. You will never have to file an email. Google's search technology would automatically generate you the results of any query in the matter of seconds, or should I say microseconds.

For instance, go to any Google Search Box and enter the words "Books about Polymers", polymers being my field of specialisation. In a fraction of a second it will search through over a billion records and produce my web page "Findians Paradise Books about Polymers" at the top of 210,000 other pages related to the subject. That is because I know what I have put in that page is what people who want to know about Books about Polymers want to find. After all, that is my field of specialisation and I should know what polymerists are looking for. Or, as another ewxample, enter the words "Books about Women of India" in the Google Search Box, and you will find the second position is held by my site "Findians Paradise - Women of India - Books about and by Women from ..." out of 2.7 million sites related to this subject. I am an EXPERT on Women of India, having being married to a Finn for 37 years who is more Indian than most Indian Women!!! .-) (These results related to my pages are not typical only of the Google search engine but of any major search engine - so it shows the relevance of not the search engine but the pages I have created - and that is good considering I am a computer idiot.)

Should this not be the level of technology which should apply to your own email? I know I have serious problems finding an email address of one of you from my Eudora mail software, should I misplace my email address file which presently contains 140,000 (yes, one hundred and forty thousand) people who regularly correspond with me on a personal basis.

Don't follow the crowd - you can get registered now itself as the Gmail service may be launched in a few months.

To learn more go to the Gmail website or send me an email so I can invite you to set up a Gmail account.

I have already registered.