This is What Happens After You Hit 'Send' On a Gmail Email

Google is this week looking to educate people on the process of delivering an email the 'The Story of Send.' The site explains what happens to your email between your click of the 'send' button and the recipient opening the message. It covers everything from data centers to spam filters to ISPs and videos and photos are there to make the learning experience a little bit more visual. You'll even learn about the green energy that powers the data centers. 

Check out The Story of Send here, or watch the video below for a quick introduction:

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Jane McEntegart works in marketing communications at Intel and was previously Manager of Content Marketing at ASUS North America. Before that, she worked for more than seven years at Tom's Guide and Tom's Hardware, holding such roles as Contributing Editor and Senior News Editor and writing about everything from smartphones to tablets and games consoles.

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  • wannabepro
    Green energy, the story of expense, inefficiency, and environmentally harmful by products.
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  • digiex
    Check out The Story of Send here, or watch the video below for a quick introduction:

    Don't watch the presentation if you easily suffer from motion sickness... You might puke on your keyboard.
    Reply
  • Less about email then it is about how great and green Google is.
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  • vertigo_2000
    The video was more about Google's green efforts than what happens after you hit 'Send'.
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  • greenspoon
    Not only is it more about how green Google is, they also left out the part were they scan and catalog what is in your email so they can sell your information.
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  • hairlly
    Green energy like it

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  • santiagoanders
    McSterlsLess about email then it is about how great and green Google is.And then?
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  • hairystuff
    hang on a minute they showed the send part what happened to the recipient part, did the google server eat the data.lol
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  • Yeh right. Data centers are certainly NOT green in any fashion. They chew up more electricity than anything. And GOOD LUCK getting all your juice from wind farms ... This kind of presentation should be illegal.
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  • wannabepro
    Objection!!!
    blobbyAnd GOOD LUCK getting all your juice from wind farms ... This kind of presentation should be illegal.
    Needs to be "GOOD LUCK getting ANY juice from windfarms.". :)
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