More People Can Sign up for a Gmail Account

Although Google posted in Gmail's help that "anyone in the world is now welcome to create a Gmail account at mail.google.com/mail/signup", Google's definition of the world was pretty limited.

Screenshot from Yahoo cache. Thank you, Tony!

Gmail is now a public beta in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Brazil, Australia, Russia and Japan, according to BBC. If you live in one of those places, you can go to Gmail.com, and look for "Sign up for Gmail" or you can visit this page to create an account.

Note: I apologize for the partly inaccurate information, but Google is responsible for it. Maybe Gmail is not yet ready to go public.