12 June 2007

Google taps into the university email market

Search engine giant Google has revealed plans to integrate its software with universities across the world.

It will be offering its email services to campus networks, with many students then expected to continue using their Google email account for the rest of their life, BBC News reports.

The expansion plans have seen Trinity College in Dublin sign up and other universities are expected to follow suit.

Michigan universities recently revealed they are upgrading their email systems with Google's new "Apps for Education" platform and Hope College in Holland is also expected to do so.

The service gives students access to the popular G-mail program, while allowing schools in the US to retain their "dot-E-D-U" addresses.

In Dublin's Trinity College, Google's system will replace the existing email network, with the address and domain name remaining the same.

Other educational institutions that have made the switch to Google include Arizona State University and Linkopings University in Sweden.

With many university students expected to continue using their G-mail accounts after graduating, the scheme represents a lucrative future development for Google.

Meanwhile, Google has launched a complaint about Microsoft's new Vista software, arguing that it impairs the performance of desktop search programmes that locate data on a computer's hard drive.

Google has suggested that Microsoft has made it difficult to turn off an in-built search function included in the software, which competes with a similar programme launched by Google in 2004.

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