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November 18, 2007

GMail hits 5GB

Not that anybody noticed it, GMail storage has reached 5GB. It used to be really slow and the incremental count seemed stuck at 3GB.
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Luckily, Yahoo!Mail jumped the gun and offered unlimited, prompting Google to bump up the count a little bit. Competition really speeds things up nowadays.

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18 Responses to “GMail hits 5GB”

  1. University Update - Yahoo - GMail hits 5GB says:
    Sun, November 18 at 11:50 am

    [...] GMail hits 5GB » This Summary is from an article posted at YugaTech – Philippine Technology News and Reviews on [...]

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  2. ordnacin says:
    Sun, November 18 at 12:22 pm

    Considering that Yahoo Mail offers unlimited storage Google’s recent storage increase is somewhat of a yawner… I’d rather see those rumored upgrades to the gmail interface instead… Plus contacts synchronization with Outlook would be really sweet…

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  3. Jervis says:
    Sun, November 18 at 1:22 pm

    it would have been a different story for Yahoomail, if they let free users pop/imap access. Unless Yahoo opened this up, i think Gmail is still handsdown the winner regardless of disk space

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  4. BrianB says:
    Sun, November 18 at 1:53 pm

    I keep all my scandal vids in Yahoomail.

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  5. jhay says:
    Sun, November 18 at 4:20 pm

    For everyday web sign ups, I use hotmail, (let M$ be bothered with spam for a change), for serious contacts and personal communications, I use Gmail for my domain. Yahoo? just for YM. :P

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  6. boddah says:
    Sun, November 18 at 4:35 pm

    What i really like about gmail is it’s star labeling feature where you can tag special/important emails with a star, so you can easily retrieve and view them. Disk space is not really an issue to me.. 3 gig is a big space enough, what matters to me is how i can easily access those important messages i have.

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  7. minor says:
    Sun, November 18 at 5:52 pm

    anybody here using gmail drive for backup?

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  8. Kenneth
    Twitter:
    says:
    Sun, November 18 at 5:59 pm

    Nauna ka na naman sa’kin. :-D

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  9. Aja Lapus
    Twitter:
    says:
    Sun, November 18 at 8:34 pm

    If I have a Terabit connection, I’d declare Yahoo! the winner with unlimited storage. But I haven’t, and all you guys are stuck with the crappy bandwidth Philippine ISPs could only offer, as well.

    Now I tell you, when you fill that 5GB of space Gmail offers within an hour like what I could do on my hard drive, that’s the only time I’d be leaving Gmail and switching to your ISP.

    People are mostly limited by bandwidth rather than disk space. I bet that’s the calculation Yahoo! made before declaring the limitlessness of their resources. I wouldn’t waste time to transfer data back-and-forth from a remote storage, I’d buy another hard disk drive for that.

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  10. quezacolt says:
    Sun, November 18 at 9:11 pm

    ngaun nasa 5026.315612 na hehehe

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  11. jomark says:
    Sun, November 18 at 9:57 pm

    Its nice to have that storage capacity. At least spammers could not easily drown our emails with useless craps.

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  12. vance says:
    Sun, November 18 at 11:29 pm

    I want to ask, do people experience the so called gmail firefox bug? I read somewhere that the new gmail causes firefox browser to crash..

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  13. Aja Lapus
    Twitter:
    says:
    Sun, November 18 at 11:39 pm

    @vance: No, but Gmail crashes my Opera browser.

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  14. vance says:
    Mon, November 19 at 4:14 am

    Ok. I was wrong, It said to affect all browers but no evidence of that. Slow scrolling is one of the problem with the new version gmail.

    @all there is a firefox exploit that can hack your gmail account.
    http://neowin.net/news/main/07/11/17/firefox-exploit-leads-to-hack-for-google-accounts

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  15. Pinoy Rich Jerk says:
    Mon, November 19 at 12:22 pm

    Me too, I’ll rather be happy if Gmail will update their mail interface.

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  16. ernesto says:
    Mon, November 19 at 12:28 pm

    I love Goolge, Yahoo! sucks and copy cat the whole google bata thing right?

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  17. jay says:
    Mon, November 19 at 3:13 pm

    way to go google. but heck, they know that 99% percent of gmail’s users can’t eat that 5GB.

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  18. Mike says:
    Tue, December 11 at 8:31 am

    What is this email purportedly from Gmail team that asked you to give your name and password or else you will be deactivated from Google mail?

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