Internet search engine company, Google Inc, is doubling the amount of storage offered on its e-mail service and plans to remove limits on message capacity as it competes for users with Yahoo Inc. reports New York Times.
Google’ Gmail service celebrating its first year will now offer 2GB of email storage. The Search Giant also announced plans for continued increase of e-mail storage in the next few weeks.
The announcement comes one year after Google introduced the service, prompting rivals Yahoo and Microsoft to boost the capacity of their own free Web mail services.
“It gives Google yet another one-up over the competitors,” said Danny Sullivan, the editor of SearchEngineWatch.com, a JupiterMedia Corporation Web site that tracks the industry. “The more you’ve got stored on Google, the less likely you are to go anywhere else.”
Internet Giant Yahoo recently announced plans to match Google’s 1GB email box with a 1GB mail box. Karen Mahon, a Yahoo spokeswoman, said, “For many e-mail users, anything beyond one gigabyte is just a number.”
Google’ Gmail is still in beta stage. you can visit http://gmail.google.com for more information — to gain access to the service you need an invite from a friend. It is rumored the service will be available on a full scale sometime this month