Google: we're going to take GMail to ludicrous speed

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Yes! It's not only me that thinks Gmail is slow! For the longest time, I wondered if I had a 'slow' Gmail server, or if my large inbox was crippling me in some way. It turns out that Google knows about the issue, and TechCrunch is reporting that it will 'soon get a lot faster'.

Speaking at SXSW, Google panellist Jonathan Perlow acknowledged the sluggishness of Gmail and said 'we are fixing it.' When addressing the question of Gmail's slowness, Perlow noted that only power users -- those with burgeoning inboxes and a multitude of rules and labels -- consider the service slow. A half-second wait is nothing when you only have five unread items, but when you have 100+ it adds up!

As a free user of Gmail, I feel privileged to use their excellent service, despite its occasional slow-downs -- I guess it's something to do with free users being allocated less server resources. But I was wondering, do enterprise users of Google Apps also experience the same issues?

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