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Lycos follows suit with one-gigabyte storage
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European Web portal giant Lycos has followed Google and Yahoo into the race to provide email users with massive amounts of storage, and claims to be beating these rivals already.
Google caused considerable excitement last month when it announced that it was developing a free 1GB service called Gmail. It also alarmed some people, because of its plan to insert targeted adverts into emails.
Lycos Europe announced on Tuesday that it is upgrading its service to give consumers one gigabyte of email storage.
The new service is already available in the UK, and Lycos is planning to roll it out across Europe. In a somewhat laboured swipe at Google and Yahoo, Lycos was keen to point out that this makes it the first major email specialist to offer a 1GB service. Google's Gmail is still technically in beta, and Spymac, a Web hosting company for Macintosh aficionados, which followed suit with its own free 1GB service, is much less well-known.
"We will be interested to see when our competitors can offer the service that we already provide with a sustainable business model to underpin it. But size is not all that matters," said Alex Kovach, Lycos's European vice president.
Last week, Yahoo revealed it would provide users with 100MB of free email space, and "virtually unlimited space" for paying customers.
Lycos' own 1GB service will be free of adverts, but not free. Instead, users must pay £3.40 per month.
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This 1 GB of storage is not too strange, and I would be willing to subscribe, but the story does not tell essential details. For example, does the advertising appear (pop-up?) only on messages you read, or those you send also? I don't know that I want to send a message to a friend, or business partner, that includes an ad. The relatively-obscure ads that appear at the bottom of Yahoo and Juno messages is not a problem, but a pop-up in the middle of a message's text? No! And, it is an ad selected as of possible interest to the sender, or mailbox client, right? How does the service know the message recipient has similar interests? That's just for starters. Doug Thomas, Rio Rancho, NM
Why do I care?