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Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the the-g-man-cometh dept.

tstoneman writes "Wow, according to the New York Times (free reg. req.), looks like Google is really trying to push the envelope by offering 1 GB free storage for e-mail users via a service called Gmail, still in the testing phase, so that users never need to change their e-mail address. In addition, they want to offer their searching capabilities so that users can search through their entire set of e-mail, I guess forever. CNET News also has more details." Update: 04/01 02:38 GMT by S : The Google site now has an official press release, naturally dated April 1st.

3 of 1,082 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I dunno by Enonu · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Out of all the email I get for penis enhancement, I'm sure your mom's email is in there somewhere."

  2. Re:Mail between Google accounts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Or maybe they could have an array of unsigned characters? Or how about a structure of pointers that get malloc()'d in a for loop? Or maybe a case statement with lots of breaks. That would be awesome, billstewart, why don't you get right on that ..

    Faggot

  3. RTFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Nowhere in the article does it say each user will have a Gig of storage. It says, quote:

    "One internal Google study put the operational cost of maintaining electronic mail storage at less than $2 per gigabyte."

    So they reckon they can get cheap storage. Woopdidoo. Nothing to see here folks, move along.