Gmail turned 1 year old today (Remember this date last year when most of us thought of 1GB storage to be a joke?!?!) and while celebrating its birthday, they did not fail to create a buzz.

Georges Harik, product management director for Gmail, said that, on the first anniversary of the service's launch, some very active users had begun to worry that the 1 gigabyte of storage that had seemed immense a year ago would soon be used up.

"We've had anxiety attacks as a few of the people who have been heavy Gmail users have been coming close to the limit," Harik said. "They've been asking us, 'what are you going to do?'"

The company determined, Harik said, that the right thing to do would be "to keep giving people more space forever."


Take a look at what's new at GMail.

I dunno if thats such a good idea both business wise and info security wise. Storing that much data has got to have some major side effects

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George, How many people do you think even exceed 100 MB mark, leave aside 1GB or even 2 GB for that matter? I personally consider this to be more of a Publicity stunt rather than a move to counter Yahoo's 1GB offering!