Surprise... I usually enter "gmail.com" to jump to my email inbox, but today I"m greeted with the following message after doing so (the message sits at mail.google.com/gmail/):
We can"t provide service under the Gmail name in Germany; we"re called Google Mail here instead.
If you"re traveling in Germany, you can access your mail at http://mail.google.com.
Oh, and we"d like to link the URL above, but we"re not allowed to do that either. Bummer.
For general information about Google, please visit www.google.com or www.google.de.
Why does this happen? The reason is likely Google"s lost trademark
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Google Blogoscoped>>Publish Date: 6/13/2008 7:10:49 AM
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