[Gmail-Users] Re: Have you deleted any of your Gmail?

On 12/15/05, D Knight <daveknight12@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Wiseman wrote:
> > Well, they may be temporarily overselling their resources, which means
> > they add resources as necessary. I'm pretty sure they'll be more
> > profitable one way or another if people don't use all of their GMail
> > space without need. Since this is a free service and I'm content with
> > it outside the uselessness of attachments, I'd like them to be
> > profitable.
>
> Google's philosophy on e-mail is to never delete messages. They
> provide plenty of storage space and want us to use it to stay
> organized. The delete button is not prevelant for a reason, and this
> has been discussed on many message boards and commented on by spokesmen
> from Google over the past two years.
> See this article from 2004:
> http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3334241
>
> To the contrary, Google may actually profit more from you having more
> messages because in theory it means your looking at more ads which is
> how they make their money.
>

Not just that, but Google also builds a better profile on you if they
have more of your emails to automatically (machine, not human) go
through and extract keywords. By having a better profile, they can
serve even more targetted ads.

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