A couple of days ago, Yahoo mail customers were given unlimited storage. Google couldn’t let this slip by, so they have come up with a novel way to get one over their search rivals by offering “infinity plus 1″ Gmail storage.
Greg Tomkins, an engineer at Google, is credited with coming up with the “infinity plus one” idea. “I was out in the yard when my kids ran up to me yelling at each other. My son said to my daughter, ‘I hate you to infinity.’ She replied, ‘I hate you to infinity plus one.’ And right then I knew I had the solution to competing with unlimited storage,” said Tomkins.
In order for Google to support this, Tomkins also said that they would be using new RAID technologies which allow them to store copies of e-mail in parallel universes. This means that if their servers crash they will be able to recover your data from another universe where they haven’t.
“Once your Yahoo e-mail box is full, you’ll be able to transfer it to Gmail and add one more message,” said Tomkins. “Those Yahoos will have a hard time beating that.”
Yahoo responded:
“We will be making an announcement shortly about our million-trillion-billion infinity storage,” and added, “Neener, neener, neener.”
Not to be left out of the storage bonanza, a Hotmail representative said that while they “can’t offer unlimited storage, they can delete all your e-mail at random intervals in conjunction with their Live OneCare service, to make sure you never run out of space.”
(One of the funnier April Fools Joke’s I’ve read. Via BBSpot.)
Hilarious!
I will pay the outstanding study fees on the 30th of 2009
I will pay the outstanding study fees on the 30th of april 2009.