Yahoo To Match Google’s 1 Gig Email Storage

24 Mar, 2005 at 12:36am ET Article published in Tech

Yahoo Inc. is quadrupling the amount of storage provided with its free e-mail accounts and upgrading its desktop search software in its ongoing duel with rivals Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

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.

The Sunnyvale-based company also is expanding the reach of its desktop software, a test product designed to find material stored on computer hard drives. Yahoo’s software, licensed from X1 Technologies, will now index content from e-mail address books and discussions in Yahoo’s instant messaging service.

The expanded e-mail storage enables Yahoo to catch up with online search engine leader Google, which offers an invitation-only service that has been offering 1 gigabyte of storage for nearly a year.

Source: Yahoo

Comments

24 Mar 2005 ~ 8:45am BLuKnight Even with the upgrade, Yahoo won't be able to complete with Google. Google is doing a way better job than Yahoo in the e-mail biz. I'm really happy that I don't need to have a third party program installed to download my e-mail from google as I did with Yahoo.
25 Mar 2005 ~ 3:46am Jengo awsome!! i always use both my yahoo and gmail accts! sweet!
28 Mar 2005 ~ 6:16pm |CMC| -=JizzBoy=- Hey sounds good im happy for yahoo. I have a yahoo and gmail.

JizzBoy
2 Apr 2005 ~ 2:02am entropy Gmail wins again. In honor of their one-year birthday, they're upping it to 2 gigs.

http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about_whatsnew.html

Mine's at 1,865 MB, but it's not like I'll need that much anyways