Google's Brin Talks on Gmail Future

Google's Brin Talks on Gmail Future
Could you give me a quick overview of the goals of this project? It started as an experiment to see if our search could be used on e-mail. And in fact, it was originally applied to my e-mail. I get a lot of e-mail%u2014I have many gigabytes of it, and it's hard to manage. I have all the same challenges as everybody out there, and I found that having effective search, having large storage, having the kind of threading that we've done here%u2014all those things make me more efficient with my e-mail. And that's what I then decided that we should make available to the entire world.