Google's move to provide near-unlimited storage, and a concentration on usability with help from Ajax technology, helped change the web-based email market. Google originally announced the service on 1 April 2004.
Google hasn't made it official, but PC World/IDG News Service and the Google Operating System blog are totally convinced that Gmail will get multi-language, on-the-fly translation of their email messages at an event in Brussels today to celebrate Gmail's fifth birthday.
Before its acquisition by Google, the gmail.com domain name was used by a free e-mail service offered by Garfield.com, online home of the comic strip Garfield. After moving to a different domain, that service has since been discontinued.
Gmail was ranked second in PC World's "100 Best Products of 2005," behind Mozilla Firefox. Gmail also won 'Honorable Mention' in the Bottom Line Design Awards 2005.
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