Google acquires iPhone search application ReMail

From InfoWorld: Google on Wednesday acquired ReMail, a popular iPhone application that provides "lightning fast" full-text search of your Gmail and IMAP email accounts.

Terms of the deal were not released. ReMail may not have been a household name, but the app received critical praise and had a small, but dedicated group of users. So what will Google do with this app, will it just kill the technology or has the search giant got something else up its sleeve? Here's what's going on:

Gabor Cselle, ReMail's founder will be heading to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California, where he'll join the Gmail team as a product manager. Cselle has made improving email his life's works so far. The reMail founder was once the vice president of engineering at Xobni, the popular social networking sidebar for Microsoft Outlook. Cselle should feel right at home with Google since he's worked on the Gmail team before.

If you're a ReMail user, Wednesday's announcement will be bittersweet for you. On his blog, Cselle said ReMail has been yanked from the iTunes App Store and no further updates for ReMail will be coming. However, Cselle says support for reMail will continue until April, and ReMail is making its premium features available to all users for free. Premium features included support for IMAP and Rackspace accounts.

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