In less than a year, the storage space one gets with a free Yahoo! Mail account has gone from 4 megabytes to 250 megabytes to a gigabyte. The two moves have come in reaction to Google’s “gMail”, which debuted by offering eye-popping one gigabyte accounts to the masses. PC World reports:
It was only a few months ago that Yahoo went to 250MB of space from a measly 4MB–which it did, of course, in reaction to Google’s gMail and its then unimaginably-big 1GB accounts.
I’m a longtime proponent of treating an in-box like a searchable database–which has gotten me in trouble with more than one IS manager–so I think it’s great news that browser-based mail is providing lots and lots of elbow room. Anyone want to guess how long it’ll take until Hotmail, which currently offers 250MB, goes to a gig? Or whether competition and cheap disk space will eventually give us 10GB or 100GB or a terabyte of free space?
Nathan Novak at 10:57 pm
I hate to break it to you but there is one email supplier that is already offering one terabyte of free mail…they did that soon after G-mail offered 1 gig…What would one want one terabyte of free mail space for…uless its a corporation. Think of how long it would take to read it if it ever got full.. They would have to hire readers just to keep up with the volume…Jerry G
Comment by jerry G — March 25, 2005 @ 11:43 pm
Last time I checked > HRIDERS will give you a free email account with One Terabyte of storage ((( WOW ))) ! Imagine if you told someone that 5 years ago, they would think you were crazy !
Comment by RCD — March 26, 2005 @ 12:25 am
yahoo is just being a bunch of lame a**es, they filed a lawsuit on xfire (www.xfire.com) a small, independent gaming instant messanger because of some stupid reason that they cant back up. yahoo is trying to put everyone out of buiz i guess…
down with yahoo,
google and xfire forever
Comment by homer — March 26, 2005 @ 12:46 am
Does anyone know if Yahoo plans to increase the premium storage? Currently, they provide 2G for $19 a year.
Comment by RK — March 26, 2005 @ 1:05 am
It is not entirely true that hotmail gives 250MB to its users. As far as I know it is only user in the US that get 250MB, elsewhere they still get only 2MB.
Comment by Paulo — March 26, 2005 @ 4:08 am
i like USA
Comment by daotrongchuong — March 26, 2005 @ 4:09 am
LOL, you like USA - and you think we from other parts of the world are stupid? We register at Hotmail as US citizens and get 250MB as well. They have no way of telling where we are coming from.
Have a pleasent day.
Comment by g — March 26, 2005 @ 4:32 am
Im a uk user of hotmail, with “.co.uk” hotmail account, and i still get 250 MB free space. so its not just limited to US users…but gmail rules!, its search facility, autmatically adding all email addresses that u received/sent emails from/to
Comment by Abc — March 26, 2005 @ 11:33 am
When will Google officially offer Gmail to the world. I have a gmail account and love it. I immediately forwarded all my other mail from Hotmail and Outlook Express to my gamil account. That’s about 5 years worth of important messages and I’ve still only used of 5% of my storage with gmail! Amazing. Plus of course the search technology plus the label system is brilliant!
Comment by Patrick — March 26, 2005 @ 1:52 pm
Nothing is free. If you use Gmail, Google will be reading your messages to be able to target their advertising. I don’t need these low-life dweebs spying on my email messages. Looks like they have lined up a lot of suckers already.
Comment by Lee — March 28, 2005 @ 12:22 am
“Nothing is free. If you use Gmail, Google will be reading your messages to be able to target their advertising. I don’t need these low-life dweebs spying on my email messages. Looks like they have lined up a lot of suckers already.” - That’s totally true. Actually i think that’s the primary focus of google introducing gmail. to spy on mutha fu**as
Comment by bLunT — March 28, 2005 @ 1:50 pm
And that’s why Firefox+Adblock extention+block google ads=win
Comment by Casull — March 28, 2005 @ 2:13 pm