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- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17google is exceptionally good at spam filtering. my hotmail account gets bombarded with Cheap Rolex and Drugs to make my dick even bigger and some stupid ***** from Nigeria/Ivory Coast trying to give me 20% of his fortune. Never had this problem with gmail. I hope this deal adds more to security against spammers, scamers and Fishers.
- K3ITHK, on 10/11/2007, -3/+18Google is buying everything!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14What I am beginning to admire about Google is the way they can suck up these companies and very quickly integrate their products into their own as if it were a feature intended from the start.
- Mockylock, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13When they buy Microsoft, I'll be impressed.
;) - jragon, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12Oh boy. Now I get to hear even more about Google taking over the world, being evil, etc.
- resta6, on 01/12/2009, -0/+9on TC they said that Gmail used Postini under a license prior to acquisition
- modelcadet, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Lol... Gmail already uses Postini. Google just wanted to own the technology, rather than license it.
- bebop717, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Google more and more reminds me of a chichè eccentric cowboy millionaire that always has a suitcase of money to buy something they like.
- HyperJack, on 10/11/2007, -4/+9Mehh...Google buys everything these days.
They are like some rich kid in a toy shop. Whatever they want, they get. - jake8689, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4i wouldn't call google evil because they not boning any one over in fact their making it better and free but i do fear that in 20-30 years when someone new takes over it all goes to hell then they well be evil until then no
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Wonder when Google will buy the dark side of the moon
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Will they ever run out of money?!
- pseudojd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Postini is better. This deal is basically gold all over.
- abandonedhero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Haha @ hugeurl. Quite funny.
- sonaro, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Updated article from Reuters.
http://tinyurl.com/26thbp - rheaume, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Google needs to buy Sony and shut it down.
- mayurpatil, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Yes if the whole world decides not to use the internet.Thats the only way.
- tize, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2haha : ) +1
- Kitsune818, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Perhaps that's because, as in this case, they were using the product under license before buying the company? (in other words, it's integrated already.)
- h0zae, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3next.....
maybe kaspersky? - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Kaspersky is the best for our windows friends, light on resources and very accurate. Its a joy to work with
- chrisgeleven, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2We use Postini at my work and it is a great spam filter. Very rarely does any spam sneak through (so rare, people think Postini is down if one sneaks through) and I don't remember the last time we found a false positive.
- srusso, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yeah same here, we started using it 5 or 6 months ago and it works great! To tell you the truth, I haven't had much spam in the past 6 months ether, my users don't seem to complain about spam anymore...
- SirTezzy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Even bigger? Have you tried one of the products before???
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -1/+2Google needs to buy Sony Online Entertainment, and rename it to Google Online Entertainment.
- championchap, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I think the plan is to buy everything that isn't Microsoft, so then they have teams all over working on every concievable product. Leaving Microsoft trying to compete with Google for EVERYTHING!
- Kitsune818, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1don't make you pay for it *YET*. Wait until there is no other options.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Might be better if they get AVG
- xShad0w, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1They aren't evil, all there services are free and the best around, jake8689 might be right, in 20-30 years they might become evil but i doubt anyone will directly compete with google if they aren't known right now, it will take a lot of time and money to bring down google and im very very faithful, plus in that 20-30 years it will even get harder then we think because obviously google with expand even more, since they actually innovate there products cough*microsoft
- jake8689, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Well M$ makes us pay for it google dosent thats the difference
- flunky02038, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Postini was not a competitor to Google - its an email anti spam vendor and as such will add much needed content filtering to gmail.
- BlueNine, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This seems really, Really, REALLY bad from a privacy POV. Postini is used by allot of important companies, including accounting firms and investment firms and law firms and other organizations which routinely exchange sensitive email with clients. All of the Postini customers I've encountered have things setup the same way, which is their MX records point to Postini's SMTP servers so that all email is routed *through* Postini's servers for spam filtering. It is bad enough that by default and for virtually all users email is sent as plain text over numerous networks and passes through one third party (their ISP's SMTP server). Having it pass through an additional third party (Postini) isn't very desirable and is arguably highly inappropriate in the case of law firms and such. Now that additional third party will be Google, one of the leading datamining/datawarehousing companies. Not only will virtually all users be unaware that their email is being parsed by Google (just for spam filtering purposes? I've got a bridge to sell ya), but even if they are aware, many would find the price of avoidance (not being able to send email to their broker or attorney or whatever) too high to bear.
I think individuals and organizations concerned about privacy need to catch their breath and redouble their efforts to publicize Google's ever increasing threat to privacy and petition their members of Congress and the FTC to step in and block some of these acquisitions. Things are just going to continue to get more and more out of hand. - Jeffler, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1See, I do have the occasional problem, but its fine, considering only about 1/300 of them come through. No worries IMO :)
- modelcadet, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1All big companies buy out other companies. It's not necessarily bad for the economy... after all, it rewards entrepreneurs and can lend better resources to solid ideas and products.
- HyperJack, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Don't start giving them ideas !
- blablaman, on 10/11/2007, -4/+4Mirror
http://www.hugeurl.com/?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 - heydigital, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2I like Google, and more and more they are acting like Microsoft by buying so many companies...and that's not a bad thing.
- gotamd, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I've actually started getting much more spam on my Gmail account recently, and a few of them are getting through.
- oneunshamed, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0the internet is not for sale!
LINK ==> http://www.metafilter.com/53478/Im-the-Internet-Youre-the-Internet - foxnet2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0It appears you really, REALLY do not understand how the service works. If you do not want others to potentially read your email, encrypt it. Postini and other providers offer this service. As for messages passing through Postini being read by Google is far from the truth.
- rdemetrescu, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Never !! It is not for sale...
I repeat: I won't sell it... :) - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3So google is finally big enough to start buying the competition instead of innovating and everyone's okay with that? I guess they'll have to become a convicted monopoly or something before they can "do evil"..... I like how one poster says "What I am beginning to admire about Google is the way they can suck up these companies and very quickly integrate their products into their own as if it were a feature intended from the start." when MS does the same exact think and get's flamed for it all the time.
- varthDader, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Suddenly I feel better about my Gmail account! lol...
- konforce, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1My previous ISP used Postini, and its spam filter was horrible. You had to end up going back into the site just to see how much of your mail it incorrectly marked as spam.
- bootykika, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3We've used Postini here at work. Pretty good SMTP monitoring product. I dunno if it's any better than the Gmail spam filter though.
- nectom, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0YAY!!! i want a google unified world. Gearth....yes thats what it will be called. mmm or maybe eargle....i dunno which is better.
- ChrisSH, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0I've had to setup Postini for a few clients, and good lord does it suck! Worst interface ever for getting it set up.
- velocity303, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0gosh, 10 years from now i see google trying to buy its own country. Instead of paying taxes to live there you just get bombarded with ads. Hopefully they'll be more successful than the pirate bay...
- Wcain, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0when is google gonna by the internet.
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