Google Moves Toward a Direct Confrontation With Microsoft: the Web search engine, is preparing to introduce a powerful file and text software search tool for locating information stored on personal computers.
Google tests waters with terabyte e-mail limit: Several users of the search engine's Gmail Web-based e-mail service noticed Tuesday that their storage limits had quietly been raised to 1 million megabytes, or 1 terabyte. That's four times the typical capacity of a new high-end PC's hard drive.
[act. 20.05.04: Gmail Bug Sparks Storage Rumors: Rumors that Google is offering users of its Gmail service an unprecedented 1 terabyte of storage space are untrue, the company said Wednesday, blaming a bug in the system for the confusion. [...]
Google spokesman Nathan Tyler denied the rumor. "It's a bug," he said. "Google is offering users 1 gigabyte of storage."]
