Gmail in personal search results

Re:Gmail in personal search results by mikenon on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @02:23PM (#4357145)

If I had two groups of users, one that paid for my products and one that didn't, I would move mountains to make sure that paid users weren't excluded from new features. Why does Google continually give free users first access?

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Re:Gmail in personal search results by UnFleshedOne on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @04:55PM (#4358015)

Free users are test subjects I suppose. It is way easier to test something out if you are not expected to provide support in case it blows up.

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Re:Gmail in personal search results by duaneb on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @02:37PM (#4357252)

Google gets most of its revenue, by a long shot, from its free users.

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Re:Gmail in personal search results by mikenon on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @02:58PM (#4357386)

Undoubtedly. However, unless the average free user's eyeballs are worth more than ~$50/yr, any given paid user is more valuable than an identical free user.

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Re:Gmail in personal search results by barista on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @03:33PM (#4357584)

You do know that the "free users" are actually the product that Google sells to advertisers? The more "free users" there are, the more money Google makes.

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Re:Gmail in personal search results by mikenon on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @04:38PM (#4357936)

The more paid users there are, the more money Google makes. I'm not seeing your point. Unless a single free user is worth more than $50 yearly, paid users are worth more.

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