The Postal Service could sign a deal with Google. When you send a letter in the mail, the post office can open the letter, and have a computer scan it. The scan can then be sent to Google.
The next time you visit Google, your search results can be influenced by the scan of your letter.
That will be great for USPS/Google users, because their search experience will be more personal. Google Dashboard: FAQ about Gmail, Security & Privacy
Is Google reading my mail? No, but automatic scanning and filtering technology is
at the heart of Gmail. Gmail scans and processes all
messages using fully automated systems in order to do
useful and innovative stuff like filter spam, detect
viruses and malware, show relevant ads, and develop
and deliver new features across your Google
experience. Priority Inbox, spell checking, forwarding,
auto-responding, automatic saving and sorting, and
converting URLs to clickable links are just a few of the
many features that use this kind of automatic
processing.I pay for Netflix, my phone, and internet. I think it's time to start paying for email.
Does anyone have a good suggested alternative to Gmail?
(update: neoemail is in Switzerland .. that settles it :)
2 gmail accounts 1 .mac account 1 yahoo account 5 active VPS accounts ~70-80 addresses that I get filtered to one account on the VPS Here's the problem: - Yahoo doesn't like my VPS - they blacklist all of Hostgator - AOL doesn't like gmail - gmail bounces .mac more than anything else You could always rawk PGP: http://lifehacker.com/180878/how-to-encrypt-your-email
I do have a gmail account, but this latest action by Google is the last straw for me. Annoying fact is that most employees these days seem to use gmail so Sergey and Co. still have their hooks in (but it is work so not that big a deal). There is a business opportunity here ..
Thanks.