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Google’s popular email service Gmail is now open to everyone, reports the Associated Press. The service, previously available by invitation only, will be open to all starting today. “Although it will no longer require invitations to sign up, Gmail is retaining its ‘beta,’ or test, status, signaling that Google still considers the service to be a work in progress,” notes the report.

Today marks the first anniversary of Google’s Gmail email service, and the company has doubled the storage space to 2GB, up from its present 1GB offering, reports AP. The change takes effect today and Google says this increase will not be the last. The company said it will continue to increase storage space based on its user’s needs. “Our goal is to make sure storage is no longer an issue for Web mail users,” said Marissa Mayer, Google’s director of consumer Web products.

Google said today that it will graually roll out POP3 (Post Office Protocol) support over the coming weeks to users of its Gmail e-mail service. “With POP3 support, users will be able to transfer their server-based Gmail messages to a client-side e-mail application such as Microsoft’s Outlook and have the messages stored on their local hard drive and thus accessible when they are offline.

Google has added support for Apple’s Safari Web browser to Gmail, its new e-mail service that offers 1GB of storage. Gmail, which is still in beta testing, also currently supports Mac versions of Netscape 7.1 or higher, Mozilla 1.4 or higher and Mozilla Firefox 0.8 or higher.

Google announced its new, free 1GB email service on March 31, 2004 without support for Safari, Apple’s Web browser. However, Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder, has said that this will change before the service is publicly available. “We’re going to make it work with Safari and that’s one of the high priority things,” Brin told MacCentral in an interview. “I’ve heard that you can sort of get it to work if you’re desperate.

Google President and Co-Founder Sergey Brin told The Wall Street Journal in an interview (paid subscription required) that the company is considering making changes to its recently announced Gmail email service amid privacy concerns. The service, which is still in beta testing, offers 1GB of free email storage and was to insert targeted advertising into user’s messages.

Last week Internet search giant Google announced its free Gmail email service, whereby users are given 1GB worth of email storage. The upcoming service has raised some concerns on the Internet about privacy issues, as the company’s computers will scan every email and insert relevant advertisements based on the content of the message.

Internet message boards were buzzing yesterday after Google issued an unconventional press release announcing the upcoming launch of its new email service, dubbed “Gmail” [A screenshot of the service can be found here]. Many thought the announcement was an April Fool’s Day joke, but Google says this is not the case. Numerous media outlets today are reporting that Google is indeed launching such a service in the near future.

According to a press release sent out late Wednesday, Google will soon begin testing a preview version of “Gmail,” a free search-based e-mail service with a storage capacity of 1 gigabyte (the equivalent of 500,000 pages of e-mail) per user. “Unlike other free webmail services, Gmail is built on the idea that users should never have to file or delete a message, or struggle to find an e-mail they’ve sent or received,” Google said.