New web mail era

Yahoo! has announced that its going to provide unlimited storage for all its users from May, 2007. This is an interesting news today.

Almost every free web mail provider has been offering lots of features (mainly storage related) during the last 2-3 years. Hotmail increased the storage from 5MB to 25MB and then to 1GB. Yahoo, from 100MB to 250 MB and later to 1GB. However, this new web mail era started since the introduction of the GMail with ever-growing storage (initially 1GB I think). Every free web email user should thank Google for releasing such a competitive product which has boosted the whole web mail industry.

I have been using Yahoo mail, Gmail and Hotmail for longer period of time and I personally prefer GMail for several reasons; its way of organizing the whole bunch of emails (through labels, archiving, etc..), free POP and forwarding facilities, integration of one account (Single Sign On) for several applications (GTalk, Blogger, Reader, etc..) and so on. And also, GMail has always been an initiator and not a follower.

The current trend of the web mails shows that we can expect more from each vendors in future, such as the present announcement from Yahoo. We will wait and see!

[This is not a marketing for Google]

UPDATE:
This is an iteresting article from TechCrunch; A Comparison of Live Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo Mail