The great GMail machine had a hiccup the other day and was down for a period of time. Many users were without their “FREE, BETA VERSION” of GMail until Google got the problem worked out.

Thing is the FREE BETA VERSION part of this issue hasn’t dawned on them.

Hey! It’s a free service folks! Quit whining about defecting to Yahoo or Hotmail for crying out loud. Anyway, once Microsoft gets their hands on Yahoo, it might be facing the same or similar problems so there ya go. Not a pretty alternative after all, is it?

I wonder about people sometimes that will complain loud and long over something they get free. I mean, if you want something that’s free then ya gotta understand that sometimes….SOMETIMES, it’s gonna have some issues. So lambasting Google over it is kinda bordering on the doofus side a bit. At least they got it worked out pretty darn quick which goes to say a lot about their reputation.

Now, if you’re paying for some service and it goes down the crapper for a period of time, I would agree that it would be time to contact the provider to register a complaint. But, to advocate others to escape to Yahoo or Hotmail over a free email service provided by Google just because of a hiccup? Come on, man!

Oh! You didn’t really have your business’s email account(s) on a free beta service did you? Uh-oh.