Lycos, stung by Google, jumps on 1GB bandwagon

The move, which is clearly targeted at a bigger search engine company called Google, kicked off in Her Majesty's realms (England, exclusing Cornwall) yesterday with other countries expected to follow shortly.

Google is planning to launch a GB service of its own later in the year. The main difference between the two services is that Lycos will charge users £3.49, or $6.15, per month for an ad-free e-mail service. Google is planning to put advertisements in customer emails and charge nothing.

Reuters has done sums and reckons one GB of storage means users can store a quarter of a million email messages or 2,000 photos, unless the emails are extraordinarly long or the snaps are extraordinarily small.

It did not explain why it bothered working these sums out. µ