Review

Google Mail: Novelty or Nosy? - Alyce Lomax
The Motley Fool - April 13, 2004 (subscription required)
http://www.fool.com/news/mft/2004/mft04041315.htm
"As far as my experience with Google's Gmail thus far, ads come up as links on the side of the Web page, much like any regular Google search. For example, a 'test' email I received in Gmail rendered up a few links on the side of the page for testing services. Scary! (Not really.) This is an old argument that rears its head and then dies down whenever some new technology hits the scene. Are people really that offended by Amazon.com, or willing to let that TiVo remote be pried from their hot little hands? I'm not convinced."