Gmail, officially Google Mail in Germany and the United Kingdom, is a free web-based (webmail), POP3 and IMAP e-mail service provided by Google. Gmail is available to individuals with Google accounts, who receive “their.username@gmail.com”, but can also be configured to handle mails for an organization that already has their own domain name.
Google claims that Gmail includes “award-winning spam and virus filtering”. Brad Taylor, “spam tsar” at Google, stated:
“When [Gmail] launched 25% of e-mail was spam. We caught a lot of that. Over time it’s grown and grown and currently around 75% of all e-mail is spam and so our job has got a lot harder.”
Brad Taylor can also be seen in this cheeky ephemeral film explaining how the Gmail spam filter works.
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