Not So Fast, Google

[Plexus]

Yahoo has announced that they will be increasing the maximum size of their free email boxes from 4 megabytes to 100 megabytes. This is likely in retaliation to Google's announcement of Gmail, which will offer up to 1 gigabyte of storage. Yahoo expects to have your mailbox bigger sometime this summer.

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Yay! Now it looks like I'll be able to avoid the questionable Gmail.

 

[Silverflame]

Yahoo has announced that they will be increasing the maximum size of their free email boxes from 4 megabytes to 100 megabytes. This is likely in retaliation to Google's announcement of Gmail, which will offer up to 1 gigabyte of storage. Yahoo expects to have your mailbox bigger sometime this summer.

You're kidding.

Hmm... my SBC Yahoo mail account has 10 MB of space... I wonder how much that will increase to...

 

[KaNick]

There is no way that I will get GMail.

 

[Goober]

Meh, this just means I can be even lazier when it comes to deleting Spam on my Yahoo account. Speaking of my Yahoo account, I need to check it!

This is kinda good news, though.

 

[hbdragon88]

Meh, this just means I can be even lazier when it comes to deleting Spam on my Yahoo account. Speaking of my Yahoo account, I need to check it!

This is kinda good news, though.

Bulk Mail and Trash no longer count towards your quota, Goober.

 

[Moss]

I never use the 4 mb on yahoo anyway. Why would I ever need 1 GB from Google. Although if its free, I may sign up for an account just to sign up for an account.

 

[Neomega]

I never use the 4 mb on yahoo anyway. Why would I ever need 1 GB from Google. Although if its free, I may sign up for an account just to sign up for an account.

The uses for 1 Gb of email in the upcoming age of high speed internet will be invaluable to thousands of trade businesses, large and small. A gig is a huge chunk of free space. Free mailboxes means you could probably use more than one, maybe even hundreds. I back up important documents in a couple of email acounts. Imagine being able to back up a good portion of your hard drive every day.

 

[hbdragon88]

I never use the 4 mb on yahoo anyway. Why would I ever need 1 GB from Google. Although if its free, I may sign up for an account just to sign up for an account.

Well my Yahoo account has became my main account. During the time I've had it (I started on May 31 2001) my parents have switched from AOL, to Earthlink, and now Verizon. And I've been able to move over to each switch without much trouble. Of course now I'm getting in trouble, because I'm using 5 out of the 6MB alloted to me.

 

[yaroslav]

Why do you think Gmail is questionable?

 

[nonconformist]

It searches your emails for certain words, and then sends spam based on those words (I think)

 

[yaroslav]

Not, it does automatically scan not for sending spam emails but for displaying Glooge ads while you're reading your messages.

I don't know why people is so worried about it, because automatic scan of messages is done, for instance, in hotmail and, I'm not sure but I believe that also in Yahoo for their anti-spam filters.

EDIT: forget to write spam. Sorry.

 

[MarineCorps]

I am still getting Gmail.

 

[Dell19]

I might get it for the space although I still find hotmail more convenient since it pops up when I get an email so I don't have to open up a browser to check my mail...

 

[cgannon64]

Whats so bad about the Gmail ads? They are three lines of text, and don't even occur all the time, according to an article I read.

 

[Dell19]

3 lines seems like an underestimate although I agree that as long as the adverts aren't popups then its not too bad.

Although people are complaining because Google scan your emails for words to calculate which adverts to show you, which is perhaps a problem if you consider that you will have to register with a name and a address and so essentially they could build up a huge database of customer information which they would sell to other companies...

 

[yaroslav]

Although people are complaining because Google scan your emails for words to calculate which adverts to show you, which is perhaps a problem if you consider that you will have to register with a name and a address and so essentially they could build up a huge database of customer information which they would sell to other companies...

Again, near all emails addresses that includes a spam-filter (like, for isntance, hotmail) need to scan yours emails to detect what it spam and what not. And that includes Hotmail, Yahoo, etc. So I don't understand why this fear with Google and not with other addresses.

 

[Dell19]

Again, near all emails addresses that includes a spam-filter (like, for isntance, hotmail) need to scan yours emails to detect what it spam and what not. And that includes Hotmail, Yahoo, etc. So I don't understand why this fear with Google and not with other addresses.

The fact that they are scanning to record more information than just to decide whether its spam. To effectively allocate adverts they would need to store all this information and they would probably sell it. So the problem is that it is likely that they will store information on us rather than just blocking certain emails. Of course I'm not saying that Hotmail don't do the same, they just don't tell us...