March 23, 2005

Yahoo Matches Google with 1 Gigabyte of Email Storage

Yahoo has decided to match Google by increasing free email storage from 250 megabytes to 1 gigabyte in mid-April. This is an obvious reaction as most of my friends have switched to Gmail in droves due to the higher storage and better search features, and it's not even officially out of beta yet. Yahoo is also beta-testing a new desktop search product that can index Yahoo IMs and address books. It's crazy to think before Gmail, Yahoo Mail only offered 4 megabytes of space. Isn't competition great? Someone should tell EA and the NFL that.

Yahoo said late Tuesday that it will provide 1 gigabyte of storage for each free e-mail account. The current limit is 250 megabytes. The expanded storage will be available in mid-April, said Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo's vice president of communications products.