Gmail hit by storage space glitch
21 May 2004
Google's new email system, Gmail, experienced an embarrassing technical glitch earlier this week - when some users were accidentally given one terabyte of free storage space.
Such a space would accommodate around 16 days of continuously running DVD movies.
The company is working on fixing the glitch in Gmail, according to analysts speaking to the Scotsman newspaper, which Google hopes will enable it to compete with Yahoo! and Microsoft for web-based email.
Last week, Yahoo! announced that it will increase storage space for free users to 100 Mb, and that space allocated to paying users will be "virtually unlimited".
Microsoft, however, has not made any parallel announcement.
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