Yahoo Finally Responds To Gmail, Boosts Email Storage

from the no-surprise-there... dept

The only real surprise here is that it took Yahoo! this long to figure out they need to increase the amount of storage they offered their webmail users following Google's 1 gig Gmail announcement over a month ago. They're now offering 100 megs for free, and paid users get "virtually unlimited storage" - but no details are given on just how "virtual" those non-limits are. Either way, they're going to have a tough time keeping up with Gmail.
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    Director Mitch, 13 May 2004 @ 4:41pm

    My very obvious respone

    Yahooooo!!!

    Isn't competition by profit-seeking corporations a wonderful thing? (insert MS monopoly comment here)

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    NOBODY, 14 May 2004 @ 7:24am

    No Subject Given

    I think Gmail is going to have a tough time keeping up with Gmail. If everyone has a gig of space and uses it, they're screwed. Yahoo I think understands this.

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    Anonymous Coward, 14 May 2004 @ 8:51am

    No Subject Given

    I don't think it took Yahoo that long to realize it - it took them that long to figure out how to DO it. Which is why it isn't happening for a few months, this was just the announcement.

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