I have noticed over the past couple of weeks that the GMail storage on my account has been going up very quickly. In the past the counter on the login page has been going up slowly, and was more of a gimmick. But in the last week or so I noticed the total storage capacity jumped up from 2.9GB to just over 3GB. Then this morning I logged in and it's at 3.35GB's.

That may not sound like a lot by todays standards, but when you multiply nearly 0.5GB by all the GMail users you can see that Google is making significant push to add more storage. I wonder if this could be a prelude to an announcement that could rival Yahoo!'s recent move to unlimited storage?

UPDATE 12/22/07: Looks like Google really was increasing the storage. Ever since this post the storage on GMail has been going up much faster than in the past. Currently my account is quickly approaching 6GB.

Still not unlimited like Yahoo!, but obviously Yahoo! does not really provide unlimited storage for every user. It's more of a marketing gimmick. I actually respect Google a little more for not jumping in and saying the same thing.