Spending a little too much money, too early… but it's well worth if they're going to offer a gig of space to millions of users.
Experts believe the reason for this large expansion is Google's email service, Gmail. BusinessWeek offers an explanation: "even if a Gmail account holder only has 500 megabytes of mail — half the system's capacity — Google will need to create enough storage space across its network to handle several times that amount in order to backup the account."
Expect Gmail this summer, in the mean time, check out our contest!
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Posted at 4:40AM on Dec 19th 2005 by ramkumar