Google Mail to become Gmail again in UK

New Delhi: Google Mail is soon becoming Gmail in the UK, said a post on the official Gmail blog.

In 2005, Google changed the name of its email service Gmail to Google Mail in the UK due to a trademark dispute with a UK company, Independent International Investment Research. New users got the domain suffix @googlemail.com instead of the usual @gmail.com.

Users of Google's email service in the UK will have an option to switch their existing @googlemail address to a matching @gmail one, but they have the option to continue with their existing @googlemail email IDs.

This move is also an energy saver. "Since 'gmail' is 50% fewer characters than 'googlemail,' we estimate this name change will save approximately 60 million keystrokes a day. At about 217 microjoules per keystroke, that's about the energy of 20 bonbons saved every day!" Greg Bullock, a software engineer with Google wrote in the blog post.