Google has opened up its Gmail mail service to a wider scope of users by randomly offering, for the first time, accounts to visitors of the main Google.com page.
Until Monday, to get a Gmail account, a user had to be invited to the service by either Google or an existing Gmail user.
“We just started offering Gmail accounts to a randomly selected sample on Google,” said Marissa Mayer, Google’s director of consumer Web products. “It’s a natural step to leverage the wider user base of Google.com to grow Gmail.”
About one in 20 Google.com visitors are getting the Gmail account offer, Mayer said. “Based on the success of this one-in-20 scope, we’ll be ramping it up over the next couple of weeks,” she said.
Source: TechWorld
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