Dan Cunningham: Web & Graphic Designer from Doncaster, UK with a pinch of geekyness

I’ve just sat down at my desk in the office as i usually do on a morning. I’ve opened up my mail client only to find a nice shiney new email from those guys at google!

The email goes a little like this:

You are invited to open a free Google Voice account. To accept this invitation and create your account, visit https://www.google.com/voice/removed/

If you haven’t already heard about it, Google Voice is a service that makes using your current phones much better!

Here’s what it offers:
• A personal phone number that rings all of your existing phones when people call
• All of your voicemail in one inbox with unlimited online storage and free voicemail transcripts sent to your phone and email
• Low-priced international calling to over 200 countries and free SMS
• Other powerful features like the first phone spam filter to protect you from unwanted callers, the ability to ListenInTM on your voicemail messages while they are being left, conference calling and more
To learn more about Google Voice before registering, visit: http://www.google.com/voice/about

Please note that Google Voice is only available for sign up in the US.

We hope you enjoy Google Voice,

The Google Voice Team

I thought WICKID! without even reading the complete email i’d already clicked the link and signed into Google using my Google account already!
This would have been the biggest thing that has happened to me all week but Google being Google has just hyped me up for nothing and pretty much made me feel like crap, because instead of me being happy and ready to sign up. I was presented with the following message.

Google Voice is not available in your country.
Thanks for visiting Google Voice. We’re not yet open for users outside the US, but are planning to expand our service to additional countries in the future.

So why the hell did they even send me an email? Actually they sent me 3 emails to differnt addresses, 2 of which were to .co.uk domain names to!
Sometimes it makes me think are google actually capable of sending an email out to a said crowd or are they just as bad as every other spam email service?

/rant!