Yahoooooooooooooooooooo !!!

#$%& !!!

I open Yahoo mail - just to know that the storage limit has gone up to 100MB :-D

Thanks Yahoo - and thanks Google ;) !!! My heavens - a 'search mail' option too .... Looks like GMail's war drum sound is working well on the other providers. Way to go Google!!! However, efficiency and quality of the service is yet to be seen. I clicked that 'search mail' button, and it went for a server time-out. Merely copying one is a lack of creativity anyway. Still, it's better than no-competition or other tactics of competition which offers nothing new to customer: such as the Windows Rights Management issue I talked in the previous article - using one of your products to force-market another of yours - taking customer in to hostage.

Anyway, during this week I heard that lots of people got GMail invitations - and this might be why Yahoo had to hurry. [later addition: some said that the invitations sent to Yahoo email accounts ended up in Bulk folder :) - and many complained about server problems]

Uh - and I hope they'd either make the interface less bulky - like Google, or more attractive - like Hotmail. And Microsoft: a few more MBs would not hurt on my hotmail account - although all I use for is spam prone subscriptions :) I'm not kidding: Actually I'm a bit curious what MS is doing for competition - and hope it will offer us something. In a way there is no real threat for MS - because most of the people I know who use hotmail for serious use are not techies - and they do not keep checking about other options regularly. On the positive side, their spam protection is pretty strong compared to Yahoo.

I dont have a faith on any commercial establishment - be it MS, Yahoo or Google - but Google has been nice to me so far. And when Google offers GMail for everyone, I'll be in line to grab one: I dont need 1GB of mail storage, but I wouldn't mind the way they put advertiesments - an occational text ad - compared to intrusive and distracting animated ads with Yahoo.