While Google doesn't offer online storage space for backing up your files or sharing media (other than photos and videos) with your friends, the company does provide users with a fair bit of online storage space. Gmail users get close to 3GB of data, while Picasa web users have 1GB of photo storage to play with.Now Google has launched a new paid service to let you beef up your online storage for those two services. $1 a year will snag you 6GB of shared storage space that can be used for Picasa or Gmail. Or if you've got a ton of e-mail to save, you can try out these plans:
- 25GB for $75/year
- 100GB for $250/year
- 250GB for $500/year
Odds are in the future we'll see other Google services added to this shared plan, including Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
Update: It looks like Google has updated their pricing, and 6GB of online storage will cost you $20/year, not $1. We don't know if the initial pricing was a typo or a promotion that only lasted a few hours. But if you don't believe us, there is evidence that the price was originally $1.
[via Google Blogoscoped]
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8-09-2007 @ 10:43PM
David Chartier said...
No IMAP! Still! Grrrr
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8-10-2007 @ 8:18AM
gojeda said...
I....smell.....Photoshop.
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8-10-2007 @ 8:18AM
Marty said...
I don't understand this as Yahoo has just removed its space restrictions entirely for no cost after realising that people won't pay for more space.
So either you yahoo for free or pay to use gmail.
Web-based email is a commodity product these days and Google should be be smarter than this.
Also, why offer 3 times the space for primarily a text product compared to a photosite? If you offer far more space for photos, people will use it more, share it with friends more and the whole time have google ads in front of them.
But hey, what do I know?
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