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They probably already generates a lot of revenue from scanning user's emails. If they were to make Gmail a paid service, they would probably lose a lot of peopl
by skywal_l 5y ago
They probably already generates a lot of revenue from scanning user's emails. If they were to make Gmail a paid service, they would probably lose a lot of people. Moreover, they are not necessarily competitive against other established paid email services.
- radicaldreamer 5y agoThey don't do that anymore (for advertising purposes anyway) and a lot of companies have stopped sending purchase details in emails anyway (like Amazon) to prevent Google from building up a database of purchases.
- belltaco 5y agoGmail makes people sign in to Google, making it easy to track searches
- jeffbee 5y ago100% I wish more people understood this about the value of gmail to google. People sign in because of gmail. Signed-in users enjoy much better search quality. It's a big win.
- skinkestek 5y agoI get lousy quality also when I'm logged in. Even more funny I recently got asked captchas while being logged in with a paid account with a long history of human activity and no bot activity. Usually it triggers when I try to cut through the "intelligent" cr#p they serve me anytime I look for something that doesn't have many hits. (Crazy not so fun fact: even when they have a perfect match they always seems to prioritize something else that I can only relate to my query by looking through ai glasses and squinting really hard.) Try searching for something really specific, use double quotes liberally or use allintext: <search terms goes here> and see how long it goes before you trigger the captcha ;-)
- Crosseye_Jack 5y ago> stopped sending purchase details in emails anyway (like Amazon) Amazon.co.uk still sends order emails with item details, prices, delievery date & delievery address.
- ccn0p 5y agoany source that talks about that? gmail is a wealth of information for Google that is almost certainly monetized six ways to Sunday.