New Invite Wave By my count this current wave of invitations is the sixth wave, and
will almost certainly scale GMail up to 100 million users.

Starting with the original 1,000 users, each wave has scaled up
roughly 10 times,

1000, 10000, 100000, 1000000, 10 000 000, and now 100,000,000.

Although this is pure speculation on my part. :)

A current user base of 100,000,000 will make GMail the most used email
platform on the planet. Hotmail and Yahoomail may claim more
accounts, but a high percentage of them are inactive. Given the size
of gmail accounts, it is fair to say that a high percentage of the
worlds email will soon be stored on GMail google servers. This will
give a huge advantage to Google when it comes to search, since Google
will literally know better than anyone what the world is talking
about.

I think that the 50 invites that everyone is getting is the amount
that google calculates will be needed to reach the 100,000,000 level.

Any comments?

BIll


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