Yahoo has beefed up its free e-mail service with 25 times more storage following its rival Google’s plans to offer 1,000 megabytes (1 GB) of free storage through its Gmail service.
Yahoo has also freed up millions of previously claimed e-mail addresses. All of Yahoo’s free e-mail accounts will be upgraded to 100 megabytes from Tuesday, a move spurred by Google’s Gmail service, which has remained in a test phase since early April.
Yahoo has been offering 4 megabytes of free e-mail storage, although some people with accounts opened several years ago have 6 megabytes of free storage. Aiming for new users and to cleanse out their inactive ones, Yahoo has decided to let people begin signing up for addresses that have been unused for years.
Yahoo says it will improve the tools used to search its e-mails, integrating Yahoo Search Technology into its email functions. “The objective here is to make storage quotas irrelevant to users,†said Senior Vice President Jim Brock. Brock also added that Yahoo Mail will tie in more Yahoo-branded services, such as Photos and Messenger.
Yahoo Mail has recently felt pressure to offer more user friendly functions and email storage space ever since Google unleashed their pans for GMail with 1GB of free store in exchange for the user allowing Google to serve AdWords advertisements which are targeted to each email’s content. Google has come under privacy group fire for the GMail advertising structure, but for the most part, users feel that GMail’s functionality and storage space make up for having to view the advertisements.
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RAJSHANKAR on Jun 16, 2004 at 2:09 am
Tooooo goood that 100 MB Storage is been given to all users and will be of more help to all the Mail Maniacs :))
Search Engines Directory on Jun 16, 2004 at 7:04 am
I think google cannot make competition with yahoo so far email is concerned as Yahoo has already big users and Gmail has not been able to make it public yet
solaialagu on Jun 18, 2004 at 2:36 am
how can i get 100 mb storage in yahoo
solaialagu on Jun 18, 2004 at 2:37 am
how can i get 100 mb storage in yahoo
Dodger on Jun 20, 2004 at 9:21 pm
I have been using Yahoo mail for years. Just got my upgrade yesterday, and all I can say is … so what!
I have been using this account as a throw-away address for so long and that is all I will use it for. It is so riddled with spam, that it makes it impossible to use it for anything else. Maybe if I sign up for another account and gaurded it better…but somehow I don’t think that will do any good because most of the problem with spam is coming from Yahoo mail accounts. If they cannot control their own house, then I cannot put too much faith in their service. As it is right now — I get about 300 pieces of mail in my bulk account every day, plus about 30 in my inbox. You report those 30, and it begets 40 more it seems.
I liked the old 4 meg storage (including bulk). It was my way of bouncing spam back, because I would let it fill up and max out. When I needed to sign up for something requiring my email address — I would clean some mail out of the way so it could be sent to my Yahoo inbox. Life was simpler back then.
Another Dodger on Jun 21, 2004 at 10:51 pm
Well… the 100 MB mail account is indeed good… i’ve been using yahoo mail for many years and its been my primary contact until last year when i got fed up with its junk mail…. i’ve used up all the filters and blocked addresses….
i totally agree with dodger that in order to yahoo actually lead in mailing industry has to work on somehow stopping all the spam that comes thru… i have closed my bulk mail folder so i don’t get anything there…. but i get around 30 junk mails in my inbox…. and i can’t select them as spam as the box for spam is full!!!
cheers
chino on Jun 22, 2004 at 12:07 pm
I hope my yahoo’s mail is useful for me
Because it will be biger
J O Lundsgaard on Jun 30, 2004 at 5:30 am
I find it very annoying with Yahoo NOT to be able to use another Mailprogram like IncrediMail…
Anyone know why ??
Do we get 100 Mb space - when ??
Sushubh on Jun 30, 2004 at 5:32 pm
i have seen some localized services are still 6/4 megs. yahoo.co.in still has 6 megs. :mad:
Jimmydung on Jul 7, 2004 at 10:30 am
Are you agree?
arun on Jul 10, 2004 at 4:43 am
why i have the old 6 MB and not 100MB , pls upgrade mine to 100MB
Naman Jandial on Aug 7, 2004 at 7:47 am
That’s great news that yahoo has expanded its e-mail storage capacity but unfortunately my e-mail id is still struggling with 6 MB storage capacity.
parag on Aug 11, 2004 at 8:23 am
why i have the old 6 MB and not 100MB. My yahoo account is parag412@yahoo.com
please upgrade my yahoo account parag412@yahoo.com to 100MB.
rajesh on Aug 20, 2004 at 5:08 am
how can i get 100 mb storage in yahoo
rajesh on Aug 20, 2004 at 5:16 am
why i have the old 6 MB and not 100MB , pls upgrade mine to 100MB
rajesh on Aug 20, 2004 at 5:17 am
how can i get 100 mb storage in yahoo
rajesh on Aug 20, 2004 at 5:20 am
why i have the old 6 MB and not 100MB , pls upgrade mine to 100MB
rajesh on Aug 20, 2004 at 5:59 am
why i have the old 6 MB and not 100MB. My yahoo account is rajeshkumar_rs@yahoo.com
please upgrade my yahoo account rajeshkumar_rs@yahoo.com to 100MB
mukhtar on Aug 26, 2004 at 8:17 am
i did not receive my 100mb storage limit plz upgrade it
Nagarajan on Aug 29, 2004 at 7:27 am
i did not receive my 100mb storage limit plz upgrade it
Nagarajan on Aug 29, 2004 at 7:28 am
how can i get 100 mb storage in yahoo
prem on Aug 29, 2004 at 10:27 am
how can i get 100 mb mail account
Lalitha on Aug 30, 2004 at 2:16 am
How can I get 100MB Yahoo mail account ??
Prodosh on Sep 7, 2004 at 2:35 am
Please sent me the procedure for upgrading my Yahoo mail account from 6MB to 100MB
rahul on Sep 11, 2004 at 4:16 pm
plz do something for my 100mb storage
Sandeep Patil on Sep 13, 2004 at 12:15 am
why i have the old 6 MB and not 100MB. My yahoo account is deepsanus@yahoo.co.in
please upgrade my yahoo account deepsanus@yahoo.co.in
to 100MB.
Abed Ali Syed on Sep 14, 2004 at 6:39 am
My yahoo account is still showing 6 MB storage instead of 100MB
can you please tell me the procedure to update the space available
or let me know the procedure required to increase the space provided
by the yahoo.
Thanks in advance.
toni on Oct 23, 2004 at 3:17 pm
how can you recall your mail in Yahoo.
darrell on Oct 29, 2004 at 3:28 am
i lost all of my yahoo mail including hundreds of e mail addresses when my pc went down is there any way of recovering or setting up a new address
online poker on Jan 13, 2005 at 3:37 pm
Sehr informative Seite. Vielen Dank für die Infos!
online poker on Jan 17, 2005 at 3:59 am
best site of its kind :-)
ros on Feb 21, 2005 at 9:36 pm
how can you recall a message sent on yahoo
nagarajan on Mar 5, 2005 at 11:21 am
very useful for storing bulk messages
nagarajan on Mar 5, 2005 at 11:39 am
very useful for storing large messages
aftab ahmed on Aug 10, 2008 at 5:16 am
plz i nead 1 gb mail
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