Google caters its services to students' needs
The Internet search engine now provides students
with an e-mail account, affording them more storage
BY EVA SYLWESTER
SENIOR NEWS REPORTER
Google, the Internet search engine
that started as two Stanford University
students’ research project and became
a household name, has launched a
campaign to make its services
more useful and accessible to
college students.
On Sept. 4, Google made accounts
for Gmail, its e-mail service, available
to anyone with a college or university
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Chairman of the West University Neighbors Drix Rixmann reacts to an audience mem
ber’s comment during board member nominations on Thursday night. Rixmann will step
down after serving two years as chairman of the WUN.
WUN: Members discuss the
years accomplishments
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taken at that meeting and elected in
a special election.
WUN members also discussed their
accomplishments over the last year.
Rixmann was especially proud of
the alleyway art project. Last Au
gust, WUN had residents, construc
tion workers and Eugene Mayor
Kitty Piercy sign wet cement in a
newly paved alleyway.
“I’m real happy with the way that
turned out,” Rixmann said. “It’s a
piece of neighborhood art right
out there. ”
The WUN board also discussed
efforts to save neighborhood trees.
Rixmann suggested protecting
new trees with cages constructed as
pieces of art. Community activist
Zach Vishanoff was appointed by
Walsh to head a committee that will
look into ways of removing graffiti
from trees in the neighborhood.
Other topics included tenant
landlord relations, neighborhood
party rules and continued discus
sions about what to do with the
West Neighborhood Park.
After a heated discussion over
possibilities for the park, the
debate was tabled until next
month’s meeting.
The next meeting will be Nov. 3
at 7 p.m. in the Sloat Room of the
Atrium Building at Olive Street and
10th Avenue. Elections will be held,
and anyone from the neighborhood
is eligible to vote.
Contact the city, state politics reporter
at chagan@dailyemerald.com
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e-mail account — that is, any e-mail
address ending in .edu.
Gmail accounts were previously
available only through an invitation by
a current Gmail user.
Group Product Marketing Manager
for Google Inc. Debbie Jaffe says
Gmail accounts work well with
school e-mail accounts because
school-related e-mail messages can
be forwarded to a Gmail account,
enabling students to take
advantage of Gmail’s storage and
search capacities.
Because Gmail accounts have more
than 2.5 gigabytes of storage space,
there is no need to delete old mes
sages. University e-mail accounts
currently have 250 megabytes of
storage space.
Gmail accounts are now also avail
able to anyone with a mobile phone
number in the United States.
All of Google’s user services are of
fered for free. The company stays
afloat through advertising revenue.
“Sponsored links” alongside Google
search results earn money for Google
every time a user clicks on them.
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