{"id":9870,"date":"2023-02-20T19:30:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T19:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=9870"},"modified":"2023-02-20T19:31:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T19:31:55","slug":"gmail-and-their-april-fools-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/gmail-and-their-april-fools-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail and Their April Fools Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday,\u00a0 April 1, 2004 Gmail was officially launched. Google was first known for their search\"\"<\/a> bar that I am sure that everyone uses at least once a day. Now, they had ventured into the email sector of the internet. There was some scuttlebutt that Google was about to offer a free email service that would have the storage capacity of 1 GB. Which was 500 times the amount that Microsoft’s Hotmail was currently offering. Everybody thought that Google was pulling this stunt as an actual joke, because of the fact that they were releasing this new launch on April fools day. Little did they know that Google was very serious about this launch and they had big plans of success and those plans were very much carried out. Gmail is one of the most liked and most used email service providers that is used globally, having more than 1.8 billion users. Within the webmail industry, Gmail accounts for 89.6% of account holders.<\/p>\n

I think that this was a good tactic because they had caught their competition and their customers off guard. Turned out that Gmail was real and revolutionary at that. Still to this day Gmail has taken over the customers from Hotmail and Yahoo mail because of their\u00a0 large capacity and capabilities of their software. It was almost like customers and competition did a double take when Google first announced this news because of the significance of the date that they chose to release this. The competition took little to no action on the announcement because they did not believe it was real.<\/p>\n

Overall, Google has created a mind-blowing email service and it all started by people believing that it was not even true.<\/p>\n

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