In a message dated 17.Mar.05 08:14:07 US Mountain Standard Time,
craigwhite@azapple.com writes:
entitled to a point of view - but it is nothing more than viral
marketing - Google getting saps to push their product to others - get
them to talk about Google.
Traditional viral marketing involves giving the marketer a kickback.
Remember the Paypal and C2it viral marketing blitzkrieg? Especially in certain
corners of the 'net, people got very desperate to get anyone to sign in below them
for the $5 or $10 kickback. Or similarly the paid-to-view-ads and
free-large-item programmes where to get anything good from them one NEEDS referrals.
AFAICT, giving away Gmail does nothing except good karma for you.
It's an oddity in that it's a service of fairly general interest-- most
people can take advantadge of a free webmail service, or a shinier one than they
have now.
It's something a lot of people want, and we get nothing for promoting it.
How is "Free Gmail" any different than posting "free old hardware" or "free
books"?
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