Google Incorporated's Gmail Web-based e-mail service may have an incrementing storage space counter, but apparently it’s not going fast enough – and so the search giant has announced plans to speed it up. "A few of you are using Gmail so much that you're running out of space, so to make good on our promise, today we're announcing we are speeding up our counter and giving out more free storage," said Google engineer Rob Siemborski.
When it launched in 2004, Gmail offered free accounts with 1GB of storage and by April 2005 Google started gradually increasing Gmail storage when the service turned one year old. Google got the ball rolling: this year Microsoft Corporation upped its free storage limit for its Windows Live Hotmail service to 5GB in August, and Yahoo Incorporated started offering "unlimited" storage in May.
News source: ComputerWorld
When it launched in 2004, Gmail offered free accounts with 1GB of storage and by April 2005 Google started gradually increasing Gmail storage when the service turned one year old. Google got the ball rolling: this year Microsoft Corporation upped its free storage limit for its Windows Live Hotmail service to 5GB in August, and Yahoo Incorporated started offering "unlimited" storage in May.
News source: ComputerWorld
Yea... I don't think people store "emails" with 3 Gb in totals :| even with junk mails every now and then
Yea... I don't think people store "emails" with 3 Gb in totals :| even with junk mails every now and then
I do and I'm not even a heavy user of email (or at least I don't feel I am, I rarely actually send people emails when it's easier to just message them via IM).
Man,
barf me out and gag me with a spoon!!
Gmail, Yahoo and most of the rest stink anyore, for the most part. All of them run flakey as crap anymore.
barf me out and gag me with a spoon!!
Gmail, Yahoo and most of the rest stink anyore, for the most part. All of them run flakey as crap anymore.
Perhaps you should send the suggestions and complaints department a bit more specific problem. I bet they'll get right on fixing the "flake" though.
maybe they should make it more attractive
no Ad ,I never want to see the AD
ha
The "old and plain" interface is why I like gmail. When I used hotmail, the 2Mb storage (At the time) was never a problem, but then gmail came along and it was just lighter and faster. I could check my emails faster than if I was using outlook and a dedicated email server, hotmail just seemed so slow by comparison. In the time it took me to load one email and delete it, I could check my entire inbox with gmail.
I say keep the simple interface, I love it.
have you guys ever use the GmailDrive??the storage can be part of the harddisk.
what is bad is the up;oading speed is not so "good"
You are currently using 1045 MB (33%) of your 3155 MB.
On the attachment note.. why not allow .EXE? And up the space
God damn it, it's not all about storage space.
When will anyone learn?
Oh and the Gmail drive thing would be nice
You can get GmailDrive. Here
You can get GmailDrive. Here
that hasnt been updated like for 2 years already... wouldnt google have changed some stuff about gmail since then?
Go to gmails sign in page.
look at the number
add a week or 2 to your computers date
reload the page and you should be able to predict what the storeage will be on that date (if the counter keeps going at the rate it is)
i barely use it as is! don't need any more, and gmail is my main personal email system!
And for people who counts on gmail I would like to make you all remember one thing. Gmail does not delete your emails. They store everything and generate ads related to your email bodies. Well if you care for privacy or not thats the main conclusion for it. I personally don't think that they have right to generate banners due to my email content which is my private stuff.
Read this properly you will understand the concerns of people.!
http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html
Last edited by fl0at on 16 Oct 2007 - 01:58
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