Good question.
They may intend to eventually charge for it. So right now people who use it and find problems are essentially giving free beta testing results.
Or perhaps it's just a trick to make me get used to gmail has essential, then charging for it.
Why gmail is providing free POP3 connectivity? what is the benifit of google in it?
That's a smart question. However, I don't have the "right" answer. We can only guess and my guess is Google wants to make us "dependent" on their services - Google wants us to think Gmail is an indispensable tool.
A POP3 account access guarantees (well, almost) that we will check our emails each day. Adding such a service also endorses Google as a brand name. And they keep on building on their huge database of Gmail users.
Now, if Google does come out with a new paid service wouldn't it be easy to tell everyone - simply send a promotional email to all Gmail users?
Finally, I think the main revenue from Adwords/Adsense comes from Google search pages and their partner sites (websites that display Adsense ads). I think the ads on Gmail accounts yield only a very small fraction of their total earnings. (At least I don't think I have clicked on any ads on my Gmail account)
Reply:Its non of our business to think about google's benifit...
Its a free facility, take advantage of it, use it...
Its my opinion.
Might be its just to make a difference among another free email service providers.
Reply:Google get profit from Advetisements.
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Reply:Yahoo also giving free POP3 Access
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