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Byline: Jeff Gelles
Apr. 17--If you're concerned that your privacy is eroding in the fast-changing world of the Internet, you may want to look closely at the latest offering from one of the high-tech world's most trusted brands.
Google, whose name has entered the language as a verb meaning "to search the Web," recently unveiled Gmail -- its version of the free e-mail services such as Yahoo mail and Microsoft's Hotmail.
Microsoft provides two megabytes of free e-mail storage space to a Hotmail user. Yahoo offers four.
Google's Gmail, still in testing, offers a gigabyte -- more than a billion bytes. That's 500 times as much as Hotmail, and,…
Source: HighBeam Research, The Philadelphia Inquirer Consumer Watch Column.