It’s been reported today that Yahoo! is going to start offering unlimited email storage starting in May.

Now, when GMail came out Yahoo! and Hotmail only offered something like 20-50MB of storage. GMail’s offering of 1GB of storage blew those other limits away. As it stands now I have +2.8GB of storage in my GMail, and I’m using less than 10% of it. It’s going to take me a long time to even reach 1GB of usage, and add to that the perpetually increasing amount of storage that Google gives means I’m probably never going to max it out.

Sure, unlimited is…well…unlimited. But I’m guessing that only the top 0.01% of GMail users are anywhere close to maxing out their storage. My cynical side is saying that this move by Yahoo! is them grasping at straws to show that they are just as innovative and savvy as Google. The massive storage thing has been done before. Ho hum.