Even more GMail space.

Syth

I think google are at it again. The GMail homepage says they are giving people more space (and implying infinte space). And when you're logged into your account, one has more than 1024 MB of space. I'm up to 1300ish MB, and it goes up slowly. Very strange and cool.

BrookieD

please read the calendar?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Peace

BrookieD wrote:

please read the calendar?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

TBH

Trojan

/me'd stake a pint on it being real

I'm up to 1319MB now...

MiCr0

the amount of free space in the accounts seems to be going up slowly
mine's currently @ 1307mb

snappieT

1320 right here!

Anyone else need an invite to Gmail, just a PM away

Khannie

Me too (pint stake). GMail was announced a year ago today.....I remember the "it's no joke...1GB" news stories.

Syth

BrookieD wrote:

please read the calendar?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I know it's April Fools Day, but this is google. GMail was announced last april fools day. It wouldn't suprise me if this was true.

Papa Smut

Papa Smut wrote:

I'm up to 1319MB now...

Now at 1321...

...It just ate my hotmail limit :eek:

landser

it is a joke... they say they're giving you infinity plus one ffs... they're taking the piss but at the same time remnding everyone that you get 1gb with your gmail

NotMe

Mines at 1323.637024 <- if you sign out of your account you can see the counter going up

krinpit

Everyone's limit is being raised to 2GB - linky -> http://www.google.com/gmail/help/whatsnew.html

tba

http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about_whatsnew.html

Everybodys getting two gb

/edit god dammit!

Khannie

Ok, so it's established that we're getting 2GB (nice).

How many people are anywhere near their 1GB limit?

Also, if you are near 1GB how much of that isn't very compressible (e.g. it's mostly MP3's or zip files or whatever)?

ARGINITE

It seem real to me to. Its just a bit extream for an april fool's

Cactus Col

no where near 1 gb ... nowhere near 0.01 gb! ... but I see yahoo's gonna be giving 1gb anyway

tba

google are staying one step ahead of evryone else thats all.

BrookieD

how if you LOG OUT of your Acc can you see YOUR acc storage size increase??? think about it people.

Syth

ARGINITE wrote:

It seem real to me to. Its just a bit extream for an april fool's

Well they are the ones who announced free 1 GB webmail when the standard was 5 MB. It wouldn't put it past them.

I wouldn't be suprised if they went for unlimited storage. They wouldn't have to provide it, cause most people wouldn't use it and it'd be a hell of a marketing gimmick. You never know.

BrookieD

i think they are gettng storage up to 2gb but not infinity +1 thats just stupid, still a hell of a lot of space, and no emails on m PC happy days.

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L5

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or 2048

1024 = 1 gb

Fenster

Nice to see Google have a sense of humor.

That aside, the 2gb cap (not that I use it..) and formatting tools are teh nice.

Webmonkey

Im on 1455 MB here

EDIT: EVerytime i refresh it goes up an extra 2 - 4MB. Now im on 1460

carrotcake

BrookieD wrote:

how if you LOG OUT of your Acc can you see YOUR acc storage size increase??? think about it people.

because YOUR acc storage size is the same as EVERYONE ELSE'S :rolleyes:

Webmonkey

carrotcake wrote:

because YOUR acc storage size is the same as EVERYONE ELSE'S :rolleyes:

Yeah you can actually see the counter on the sign in page.

EDIT: just saw this:

http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about_whatsnew.html
G is for growth
Storage is an important part of email, but that doesn't mean you should have to worry about it. To celebrate our one-year birthday, we're giving everyone one more gigabyte. But why stop the party there? Our plan is to continue growing your storage beyond 2GBs by giving you more space as we are able. We know that email will only become more important in people's lives, and we want Gmail to keep up with our users and their needs. From Gmail, you can expect more.

Aquos76

I am up to 1959mb now

Webmonkey

I'm on 2006mb now. hmm i thought we were stoping at 2000mb. Unless its going to 2048mb

daveirl

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Webmonkey

Ok its gone past 2048MB now so they are growing beyond 2gb as they said so.

carrotcake

it's slowed down quite a bit at the 2050 mark

lomb

carrotcake wrote:

it's slowed down quite a bit at the 2050 mark

i think they are serious it will increase slowly towards 'infinity'
log out to see the counter moving upwards

sickle

im at 2050.397038 so far....i love gmail!!!!

Cabaal

All google need now is a IM service and they'll take over the world
So far they have
- Search Engine
- Toolbars/searches
- E-Mail
- News/Maps etc
- Blogs
- Image Blogs
- Image Editing Software

mwhahah will it ever end?!?!

Syth

Don't forget the gbrowser rumour.

There only real enemy is Microsoft. Remember Microsoft only entered the internet browser business because Netscape threatened to make the OS irrelevant. Netscape wanted everything to be done via the web (using Netscape Navigator of course). Customers having that kind of freedom of OS would seriously hurt Microsoft's busniess plan. So along came Internet Explorer.

Microsoft seem to be trying to be entering Google's game. It'll be interesting to see how it tuns out.

gobby

Thats madness. I never even noticed my account size increasing. Its up at 2 gigs! Sweet!!

daveirl

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Cabaal

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That may be true but Google is a more household name then Yahoo ever has been,

I was dargged to see the film Hitch during the week and almost everytime they showed a computer screen they showed either the Google homepage or search results page.

Also throughout the film there were lines such as "Did you Google his name?"
This film is not the only example, as far as brand recognoistion goes Google is sorted

Another thing to note is Google is the default search engine for Firefox, Camino and Safari...Yahoo doesn't get a mention without a toolbar being installed

I believe Google's only competition is MSN but nobody wants to use it as their search engine except for Microsoft.

The Real B-man

i have got 2.5gb atm

Dinner

The Real B-man wrote:

i have got 2.5gb atm

2.05 is a bit more like it at the moment. Link

Cabaal

The Real B-man wrote:

i have got 2.5gb atm

Actually everybody is about 449MB shy of 2.5GB at the moment