On the issue of "fake Gmail" website.

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The original address is the domain name. Google launched Gmail service on April 6, 2004. ISM registered eight months before Google. Moreover, a manager Wang of ISM said that the company used the color logo currently used by ISM Gmail in 2003, much earlier than Google's logo. "We didn't know their trademarks would be so similar to ours," she said in a telephone interview. But her statement could not be immediately confirmed.

At present, Google only says that they are investigating this matter. "We know this problem and are investigating it now." Debbie Frost, a spokeswoman for the company, wrote in an email.

In fact, the similarity between the two Gmail is only superficial. Once you dig deeper, they are actually very different. For example, ISM Gmail uses a completely different user interface from Google Gmail. And the storage space of ISM Gmail is smaller than that of Google Gmail. Google provides its Gmail users with more than 1GB of storage space, while ISM only provides 300KB of storage space.

In addition, ISM does not provide advertisements in e-mail. On the contrary, there are few advertisements on ISM Gmail website, one is a slogan advertisement promoting ISM domain name registration service, and the other is a rectangular advertisement saying "Joint with Amazon website". But that's just a show. Manager Wang said: "We have no cooperation with Amazon, just a link."

According to manager Wang, ISM Gmail currently has more than 300,000 users. But running this service is not cheap. Manager Wang said that ISM invested 20 million yuan (US$ 2.5 million) to develop this service technology.

The ISM Gmail service currently supports two languages: English and Simplified Chinese. In the future, ISM plans to expand its support to more than 50 languages, including traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Now, when users send e-mail, they can choose to use English e-mail address (such as username@gmail.cn) or choose an e-mail address consisting of Chinese user name and domain name. In a country like China, because most people still can't read English letters, e-mail addresses and websites written in local languages have long been regarded by some observers as a key step to widely popularize the Internet in China.

However, this bilingual e-mail service has not helped ISM make a profit. The company initially planned to charge users for using its mail service, but this was no longer possible after Google provided the service for free. Because once Google provides this service for free, users will naturally think that ISM should also provide Gmail mail service for free.