Google Gmail is Google Mail in Britain

Google Gmail is Google Mail in Britain

Google has become frustrated fighting the legal rights case over their Gmail domain name that they have now announced that their free web mail service would instead be called Google Mail in the United Kingdom. Their problem is with a London-based Independent International Investment Research who claims to have used Gmail name for their web-mail application two years before Google.

However, Google confirms that the current users of Gmail based mail ids need not worry, as they would be able to continue using them. The new users would be assigned the new mail ids as the company wants to avoid any future problems based on these copyright issues. The company still runs this free web based mail service in beta and offers it through an invite system.

The mail service was launched in the second quarter of the 2004 and has remained in controversies due to the content relevant ad modules, which run alongside mail content. Privacy groups claim that this is a violation of the user’s privacy where computers analyze the content of the mail to display relevant advertisements.

From Wednesday morning, new users in the UK signing up with this free Google service will be given an e-mail address with googlemail.com as the second half of the mail id. To make it convenient for the end user, Google is likely to keep a single user database for both these different domains so any mail sent to @gmail.com domain with the user registered with @googlemail.com would still receive the mails.