The fight will never end and its getting more and more interesting. Not long after Yahoo announced they will soon implement unlimited mail storage in their Yahoo! Mail, Google announced on 2nd of April that Gmail customers will soon have their email storage space increased to “infinity” plus one.

Creator of this idea, Greg Tomkins an Google engineer explains how he came up with such 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.

So just how this “infinity” plus one works?

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.”

How Yahoo react back to this “infinity” plus one works? They say:

“We will be making an announcement shortly about our million-trillion-billion infinity storage,” and added, “Neener, neener, neener.”

I say:

Its really nice to sit back and enjoy as an end-user!

via bbspot