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The Yahoo! vs. Google battle gets more intense by the day. Google has just announced that it is to launch an email service, called GMail. According to the company's press release, GMail will have the following features:

• A Google-power search feature that allows users to search all emails sent and received.
• 1,000 megabytes (1 gigabyte) of free storage space. Yahoo, by contrast, offers a mere 6 megabytes.
• Smart ordering of related emails into "conversations".
• Ultra-advanced spam filters.
• No banner or pop-up ads, only sponsored text links.

It is in the latter area -- sponsored text links (aside: I wonder how/if Google will target these links?) -- that Google expects to draw revenue from its Gmail service. Based on the storage space promise alone, I'd switch from Yahoo (my current email host provider) to Google in a flash. Indeed, the storage offer is so enticing, that many Google-watchers were today questioning whether the announcement was an April Fool's joke!