A lot of interesting rumors, etc. roiling around re: Google. This company drives me crazy, I’ve gotta tell you. Anyway, I just wrote up something re: the New York Times piece (free registration) everyone’s talking about.
As for the rumors about Google “quietly” testing a terabyte of storage for Gmail…. I tend to agree with Danny, who suspects it was a bug. (Google hasn’t responded to my request for info, and my Gmail account has reverted back to saying 1000 meg.)
Then again, people I’ve talked to seem to think 1 gig is plenty of space for e-mail, so maybe this is more of the Google “Web desktop” idea. That’s the scenario where Google offers a Yahoo!-like suite that lets you do everything from store files, to keep your calendar, to maintain contact and task lists. So, let’s say the terabyte is the full storage amount for the whole suite….. Anyway, just an idea.
UPDATE: News.com’s story, which had been fanning the flames of the whole “terabyte” rumors, has been updated to reflect the reality.