Close on the heals of Google moving on Yahoo's turf with free email with 1GB storage, Google Groups 2 (a Yahoo Groups like service- the original Google Groups is a web interface to Usenet groups) and image banner advertisements, comes Yahoo's announcement of new service features.
Yahoo mail will now offer 100MB to free email users (this was 6MB earlier, and then reduced to 4MB), and 'virtually unlimited storage' to paid email customers.
Other new Yahoo features include a tighter integration of Yahoo Mail with Yahoo Photos (users of Yahoo Photos will be able to e-mail photos to friends without having to click over to Yahoo Mail); Internet phone calling that is integrated with instant messaging and a deskbar that streams news headlines, weather and other information across a computer screen.
Competition is good! Besides, Yahoo started it first.
PS: An addendum to my earlier post on Google's response to privacy concerns- Google announced that it will have a for-pay version of its email service that is free of such intrusions. Maybe the proposed legislative measures had something to do with it too.
PPS: The Google-mania is reaching new heights as it's IPO draws near. Today I found a weblog dedicated to watching Google. Meanwhile, the official Google weblog is here.
Posted by vivek at May 14, 2004 10:48 AM | TrackBack