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The war for Web users' eyeballs, hearts and minds -- being fought on numerous battlefields from search to instant messaging -- turned its attention back to the e-mail front today as Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced it would boost the storage of its free Web e-mail service to 1 GB.

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I never thought his would have happened (yahoo allowing 1 GB!). Google's email currently has a great webmail interface, and only text base ads. Yahoo on the other side, has lots of flash banners, i suspect that yahoo will start using textbase ads.
Hopefully the competition will heat up, who knows soon they may allow over 1GB? :)

Oooh, who will win the competition, btw where is hotmail? staying behind?

hotmail's always been the yuckiest of them all.
i think i'll stay loyal with gmail...
yahoo's my isp and i have their account with no ads and 2gb mailbox, but i can't rely on it -> as soon as i switch my isp, the email is gone.

my vote goes to gmail.

I don't know when, but GMX raised storage to 1GB a while ago (maybe 1 year?!). But I am sure they allow that much only, because most default users need more than a few mb. Outlooks default behavior is to delete each downloaded email, so as long they check mailbox on a regular basis they clean it up without any work from the email provider itself. I personally leave my eMails I don't delete on the server... you never know when your hard disc dies and you are happy to have a copy of your emails handy :).
So I stay loyal to my "local" email provider :D.

I will be staying will gmail, as based on what has happened in the past, Google will bulldoze the competition. Just look how long it took Yahoo to catch up with the webmail, hell gmail is still in beta and pretty much everyone you talk to on IRC has an account or is in a position to easily get an account.
Just wait until Google releases the browser and IM programs people have speculating about, what will happen then? Imagine if Google directly competed with Microsoft in their biggest market, operating systems, what would happen then?

I never liked yahoo, and will never do. :)

gmail did slow down considerably, since they gave 50 invites to users... i've had people sending me email gmail-to-gmail, and it takes up to 10 minutes sometimes.
i like it nevertheless.

GMail probably gave out 50 to each user because they didn't want to wait to seehow many users will be begging for them... But its also bad because so many users are signing up, what happenes if they run out of space and forget to add more hard drives??? Just makes you wonder what kind of genuis's are running these places...

But its also bad because so many users are signing up, what happenes if they run out of space and forget to add more hard drives???

let me remind you that gmail is ran by google, which is a very prestigious multibillion dollar company, not a bedroom business ;]
There's no way that google is going to forget to add more hard drives ;]

on april 1st, gmail went to 2gb and keeps going up daily, yahoo will not allow 2gb,

Its Ridicules to have/need more then 1gb for free email.
-CEO of yahoo

it has to be said that google owns, everyone you talk to says they love google i've neva heard a bad word said about it,
now for any company with that kind of rep is awsome.
the main thing for me staying with gmail of witch i have 8 accounts =:-) is the pop and smtp access, as far as i know none of the other webmail providers offer this service[/list]

krod wrote:on april 1st, gmail went to 2gb and keeps going up daily, yahoo will not allow 2gb,

Its Ridicules to have/need more then 1gb for free email.
-CEO of yahoo

It's ridiculous to say that it's ridiculous to have/need more than 1GB for email when yahoo gives 2GB mailboxes to its dsl customers ;]

Some people however do not like gmail because of thei policies regarding privacy. They do not delete your email immediatly when you delete it from the server, it is continued to be stored on their servers for an indefinite amount of time. Also, their scanning program that reads your emails to distribute ads may be misused. http://www.gmailistoocreepy.com

This post is just to present another side of the issue, I'm a gmail user and I love it.

If gmail is not the best, then why would most people indorse it and for some search the net for free invites.. just like i did . GMAIL rocks.

cKret^ wrote:If gmail is not the best, then why would most people indorse it and for some search the net for free invites.. just like i did :) . GMAIL rocks. :o

The same reason people use Windows over much higher quality, more customizable and better priced operating systems. The name. A well known name is the best marketing tool available.