- , Thursday, April 8, 2004 12 AM
At first, people thought it was an April Fool's joke last week when Google, the search-engine leader, announced plans to offer a free Web-based e-mail service. One thing that made the plan seem
unbelievable was the huge amount of free storage offered: a gigabyte, several hundred times more space than most Web-based e-mail services offer.
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