“Storage: Google believes people should be able to hold onto their mail forever. That's why Gmail comes with 1,000 megabytes (1 gigabyte) of free storage -- more than 100 times what most other free webmail services offer.“

“...The idea that there could be a better way to handle email caught the attention of a Google engineer who thought it might be a good "20 percent time" project. (Google requires engineers to spend a day a week on projects that interest them, unrelated to their day jobs). Millions of M&Ms later, Gmail was born. “
See real Google Press Release


REDMOND, Washing (CNN) -- Within hours of Google's announcement of a new webmail service, Microsoft has responded with major changes to their popular Hotmail webmail service.
According to people working on the Hotmail service, Microsoft has recently committed itself to purchasing 35 million terabytes of server storage, enough to give each and every Hotmail user 1 Terabyte of storage.


According to computer science experts, this would allow for 500 million mail messages. This is enough to have approximately 2700 new messages a day, every day, for 500 years.

When asked why any user would need 1 terabyte of storage, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said "It's 1000 times more than Google. That's why."

Industry experts say the arms race of e-mail storage could prove detrimental to the industry.

"Soon we'll be seeing 10 TB storage, and then 50 Petabyte storage. Within a few years, e-mail storage will exceed the amount of data that has been created in the history of the universe," says CNN senior technologist Sue Kroll.

Gates insists that the move is necessary. "How many times have you tried to send a backup image of your 500 computer network to yourself via e-mail, only to have it bounce back? Now that won't be a problem." CNN.com

Wow, Google is generous!

you forgot what day is today, huh?

That's it!
It's got me again. The second time today.

Nah, if it's really a trick, then how can it be on bbc?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3588933.stm

yeah there is even an application website www.gmail.com for it
your fool

how about this one on various media: times, bbc etc

Is today the day to reveal the chicken-powered nuke?

that is what art and quality of fooling people

they even published fake pics of the queen and artickes on the paper Sun

Paper sun has been a scam paper of all time anyway, but BBC, och! I don't like this 1st of April.

when we could apply it ?

但那是牺牲申请人的隐斯的，没多大作用
就是譬如你跟你朋友在一封email里聊去旅游的事，然后这封邮件就会通过google的一个邮件扫描器，然后他就会加上一些跟这个旅游相关的广告，比如什么飞机票在订便宜啊，book酒店啊，所以，这不是免费的午餐啊。