Google to charge for extra storage
Aug 13th, 2007 by Pottz
Google on Friday began selling expanded online storage, aimed at users with large picture, music or video file collections.
The annual prices established were $US20 for 6 gigabytes of online storage, $US75 for 25GB, $US250 for 100GB and $500 for 250GB.
Google said the storage can be used across several Google products, including photo site Picasa and the email service Gmail.
The storage will soon also work with Google Docs & Spreadsheets, which are the company’s word processing and spreadsheet applications.
Gmail users currently get nearly 3 GB of free storage while Picasa users get 1 GB. The expanded storage would kick in when a user runs out of free storage in a particular service.
Yahoo and Time Warner’s AOL already offer unlimited free storage for their email services.
Google has been adding about 145 megabytes of free storage to each email account annually - a pace that would raise storage limits to more than 3.25GB in three years.
Instead of matching Yahoo and AOL, Google decided instead to charge for additional storage to users with extraordinary needs.
Most users, however, don’t even come close to reaching the free storage limits.
AP
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