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points by boomlinde 4 days ago | 0 comments
To be fair, is there a good reason that it should be?
[–] bdangubic 4 days ago
was there a good reason for a search engine to provide email service? :)
[–] dspillett 4 days ago
If they can charge for it, why not? Search is an important part of mail for many users, so there is some cross-over in knowledge/experience that can be leveraged.

And assuming you mean Google, the question is based on a false premise. They were an advertising company years before gmail was introduced, and an ad-tech company being able to trawl your mail to find ways to advertise at you is a very different proposition to a search company releasing the same product.

[–] bdangubic 4 days ago
> being able to trawl your mail to find ways to advertise at you…

much like POSTMAN can trawl through all my API calls to see what other business they make from all this data they are mining now, yes?

[–] sumedh 4 days ago
To provide personalized ads?