Google must not have been sitting too comfortably after Yahoo! announced their unlimited storage plans last week because they are apparently doing the same thing. Well, not quite the same because according to BBspot Google said that their storage will be “infinity plus one.” They then went on to say:
Once your Yahoo e-mail box is full, you’ll be able to transfer it to Gmail and add one more message. Those Yahoos will have a hard time beating that.
So how will Yahoo! beat that? Well, Yahoo (supposedly) responded saying:
We will be making an announcement shortly about our million-trillion-billion infinity storage. Neener, neener, neener.
Yeah, I know just as well as you do that there is no such thing as infinite storage right now. That won’t happen until scientists and engineers work together to create a storage medium that reproduces itself…which is just weird to think about. 
I hardly use 100MB of my email account as it is, and that is just because of a few large attachments in some of the emails that I haven’t deleted yet. The only way that this unlimited storage is going to become useful is if someone offers alternative ways for people to take advantage of it, such as for file storage.
I’ll be perfectly content for the next few years with my 2.8GB that Gmail currently offers, unless of course video emails are the next big craze which could easily take up GigaBytes of room after a few hundred messages.
Oh yeah, and one more thing…why don’t these email services ever offer a button that says “email myself” so that it is a little easier to email yourself items? Sorry, just a random thought because I always email myself attachments, but I guess if there was a file storage solution I would use that instead.
Thanks for the tip Eric!
BBSpot is a satiric website just like the Onion. I don’t know whether this post was written to reflect that.
Cool! I love Gmail and I love more space!
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For the longest time I’ve been at around 12%, I guess the fastest way to fill your inbox in a regular usage manner is to share PowerPoint presentations. They can average around 3MB and if you go through around editing 20 or 30 revisions you’ll fill it fast.
I don’t mind much about storage because I never ran out of space, even when I was with Hotmail with 2MB of space (was it ever this small?).
I see what you guys are saying about the news being fake, and that’s what I originally thought as well since they don’t have any official sources that they site. It would have been nice to see some harder evidence, but I’m sure Google really is working on it and they have referred to it in the past as being “infinity plus one”.
@PhoenixP3K: Yep, Hotmail was at 2MB at one point before they jumped into the 4MB realm and then into the really big numbers.
I’m not going to assume this is real, but if it is, I don’t mind. I’m the kind of person who does archive all of his mail, and who does send and receive rather large files to and from people. I have one account with only 88 messages (I have a lot of accounts), and already I’m using 145 MB! On the matter of my multiple accounts, this is why infinite storage seems reasonable to me. People can always create more accounts if they need more storage, and this just makes things easier, with people not having to worry about managing multiple accounts and taking up too many usernames. In fact, this might even save space, as companies would not have to store multiple user accounts’ profile information.
Google is having a hard enough time with their servers, offering even more storage is going to be tough. They can’t seems to build data centers fast enough. This past summer the comment was made, by Google, that their servers are full.
The article may very well have some truth to it, but those quotes aren’t real, and obviously Google isn’t going to backup their e-mail in parallel universes.
But it is possible that Google starts offering unlimited storage like Yahoo! in the future.