Complete Knowledge about Gmail Gmail is a free email service. Which is providing by Google from which you can send or receive email In U.k and Germany, Gmail is also called Google mail. The idea for launching Gmail was done by Rajan Seth in his Google interview. And doubled by Paul Buchheit. Google started this apart from its employees for internal use… initially, Gmail had only to open accounts to their limited friends. On April 1, 2014, Google announced Gmail for the public. Very exciting way to start Gmail. And that method was 1 April.