Google to offer gigabyte of free e-mail - News - ZDNet: "Google, the company that made off with the search market, is setting its sights on free e-mail.
The company, based in Mountain View, Calif., on Wednesday will launch a test with about 1,000 invited guests to try out a new e-mail service called 'Gmail.'
Google, which made its name in search but has added numerous services, such as a news aggregation page and a newsgroup interface, says that Gmail is search-based e-mail."