Well, Gmail has done it again – upped the ante in the free webmail world.

This morning, on their 1 year anniversary, they have upped their limit from 1 gigabyte to 2 gigabytes. What’s more, they’ve made a commitment to keep upping the storage.

Now, the other webmail services are still making their way to 1 gig, Hotmail is at 250 megabytes, Yahoo! is also at 250… kinda makes you wonder why they aren’t following.

Following tradition that dates back to it’s founding (when they misspelled the domain name when registering – hence we have Google) they’ve found a funny way of announcing the update. Not only the infinity+1 joke, but the number under “The gift that keeps on giving.” section is a counter that is moving up to the new limit over the course of the day. And when you log in… you’re shown that number (truncated of course) as your limit.

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