Unless this is an April Fools day hoax, which many people thought when they read of the announcement last April 1......
Google Doubles E-Mail Space:
A year after unveiling a free e-mail service with a full gigabyte of storage, Google Inc. is doubling the capacity of each account and plans to keep bumping up the limit in the future. Once the upgrade takes effect Friday, Gmail users will be able to store up to 2 gigabytes of e-mail and attachments for each account. Even more capacity will be made available after that as it becomes feasible, the company said.“Our goal is to make sure storage is no longer an issue for Web mail users,” said Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer Web products.
