Google tests waters with terabyte e-mail limit
May 19th, 2004 Leave a comment Visited 68 times, 1 so far today
Google just escalated the e-mail storage arms race by a factor of 1,000.
Several users of the search engine’s Gmail Web-based e-mail service noticed Tuesday that their storage limits had quietly been raised to 1 million megabytes, or 1 terabyte. That’s four times the typical capacity of a new high-end PC’s hard drive.
The Gmail service still is in testing, and it wasn’t immediately clear how widely Google will offer the higher storage limit, under what conditions, or to which users.
Google didn’t respond for requests for comment late Tuesday.
Detroit resident Rajiv Vyas, who has been using Gmail for about a month, was wowed by the change. “It’s great. Although I am not sure what I will do will all this memory,” he said. “In the long run, it would help me store not only photos but every file on my desktop. This is 10 times more (storage space) than what I have on my office or home PC.”
More: zdnet.com
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May 20th, 2004 at 6:39 am
As I understand it, one of the problems that Google ran into (at least, in regards its publicity with Gmail) is the fact that they openly admitted that they’ll use their bots to read our e-mail and deliver content-targetted ads to us.
Personally, I don’t have a problem with that. But, some folks do (even though I suspect it’s more a matter that they’re not accustomed to the notion than it actually being a true privacy issue).
Like everything it does, Google has to have a way to monetize their efforts. Especially with the impending IPO looming.
Tim
April 1st, 2005 at 5:52 pm
I just noticed my gmail.limit increasing up from 1000 to about 1275 and counting. any ideas?