Being an avid Gmail user myself, this latest news about Google increasing the storage of (nearly) everyone’s favorite email provider is news to celebrate! Gmail rocks and this only goes to prove it!

Google Inc. on Friday plans to increase the in-box storage of its Gmail Web mail service from 1G byte to 2G bytes, and it will continue to raise that ceiling in coming weeks and months, on a rolling basis, to unspecified heights, according to a Google executive.

“Since we introduced Gmail, people have had a lot of place to store e-mail, but some of our heavier users have been approaching their limits and have been wondering what’s going to happen,” said Georges Harik, Gmail’s product management director. “So, starting Friday, we’re going to give people more and more space continuously and indefinitely on Gmail, as we’re able to technologically.”

There are no current plans to increase Gmail’s 10M-byte limit on attachment sizes, he said. There are also no plans to add capabilities to Gmail that would allow subscribers to turn the in-box storage into a full-featured virtual external hard disk, he said. However, Google is aware that some Gmail subscribers are using the service for this purpose, mailing files to themselves to have them stored in their Gmail inbox, he said. [Read the rest]