January 19, 2004

Furthermore, Google last year purchased an e-mail management software maker and in 2001 registered the domain name googlemail.com.

Some in Silicon Valley also believe Google could be preparing to launch free e-mail to compete with offerings from Yahoo and MSN's Hotmail.

"If they were to go the e-mail route they'd have to provide an offering that competes with free (e-mail). Anti-spam is one form of strong differentiation," said Jim Pitkow, chief executive of Moreover Technologies, whose personalized search company Outride was acquired by Google in 2001.

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Source: Houston Chronicle

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