Gmail have just announced that they’re going to increase storage space available to end users. Although it’s not anything tangible, they’ve increased the rate at which their storage increases…

I wrote about this a month ago, and it seems like Gmail, once the biggest storage available, is now trailing the big competitors. Yahoo is unlimited (with some terms) and Hotmail has gone up to 5Gb. As far as I can estimate, Gmail’s increasing storage counter should reach 3Gb by the time the day is out.

This excerpt from the Gmail Blog:

We promised to keep giving Gmail users more space as we were able. That said, a few of you are using Gmail so much that you’re running out of space, so to make good on our promise, today we’re announcing we are speeding up our counter and giving out more free storage.

By the way, businesses, schools and organizations using Google Apps to get Gmail on their own custom addresses will get a storage boost in the coming days, too. Standard and Education Edition storage (now at 2GB) will begin matching Gmail’s counter, and Premier Edition users get a whopping 25 GB (up from 10 GB).

I would think that if someone was nearly out of account space, finding out that the counter is speeding up so that you might get an extra megabyte of storage every 2 minutes instead of 4¹, is not going to light you on fire.

1. This is just an estimate! I am not sure what the actual expanding storage rates are or were.