Yahoo mail upping the anty with unlimited email storage!

Posted on March 27, 2007 at 7:54 pm

According to ZDNet, Yahoo will be offering unlimited storage for it’s email service starting in May! This will make Yahoo the first company to provide unlimited storage, but definetely not the last! I’m sure Google is not going to take this lightly and will try to annouce something that will blow Yahoo out of the water.

Up till now, Yahoo was offering the least amount of space, only 1GB, while Microsoft and Google were at 2 and 2.5GB, respectively. Even with that though, they are still the number one email provider in the world with 250 million subscribers.

Now Yahoo needs to come out with the equivalent of the GMail drive to convert that unlimited space into something useful! Let’s do some quick math…

1 email = 20 KB (Average i got from looking at my emails for today!)
1 MB = 1000 KB

So in 1MB we can have about 50 emails. With 1GB, we can have 50,000 emails! 2GB would be 100,000 emails! If you have that many emails in your account, you must be put into the Guiness Book of World records for not only having that many emails, but for probably spending 99% of your life emailing!!!

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