STORM2K

When you log in today, does it look different than usual? Just want to make sure I'm actually on their site and not someone trying to imitate it. Thanks!
...Jennifer...

Yep, it would appear that they changed things.. I cant even get all the way in.

Yahoo.com doesn't even open today, which bites for me since my Yahoo.com and sbcglobal.net accounts are merged. So, I can't get to my free email account or the one I pay for.

Aha, I got smart (yeah, it happens) and typed "mail.yahoo.com" and got to the site. Certainly different looking. Heck, it seems they just changed it all recently and now they're changing it again? Maybe due to the Google competition, although I never use Google.

Thanks for the heads up, Jennifer! I would have been blown away by the change.

Google is 10 times better then yahoo when it comes to search engines.. Now as far as mail.. I wont make a decision yet as the google mail isnt "realy public" yet.

I use Google now as my chief search engine!

Eric

MSN is my homepage and it was different all day yesterday. Had the red background. Back to normal today.

Lindaloo wrote:MSN is my homepage and it was different all day yesterday. Had the red background. Back to normal today.

WHAT????? Storm2k isnt your homepage??????? HOW DARE YOU!! hehe j/k.. My home page is Google. Im constantly searching for things. Plus it loads SUPER SUPER fast.. Not full of graphics, applets, and ads etc...

If there was a darn way to make S2K my homepage that would be it. HINT HINT! hehe

I'm starting to like using Yahoo! Mail now!!

It looks different since yahoo is now offering 2 GB of storage space for email, photos whatever, as opposed to the old amount. Kinda so you'll question WHY it looks different. They are trying to compete with google's new email program, gmail.

Lindaloo wrote:If there was a darn way to make S2K my homepage that would be it. HINT HINT! hehe

At the top of your browser, click "Tools" and then "Internet Options." Under the "General" tab, where it says "Home page" and there's a space for a web address, put "http://www.storm2k.org" and then click "Apply" and "OK."

Well I will be dang! lol. Thanks Duckie.

Yahoo e-mail battles Google's Gmail
Tuesday, June 15, 2004 Posted: 10:51 AM EDT (1451 GMT)

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Internet giant Yahoo! Inc. is fortifying its free e-mail service with 25 times more storage and freeing up millions of previously claimed e-mail addresses in an effort to thwart a looming threat from its increasingly disruptive rival Google Inc.

Beginning Tuesday, all of Yahoo's free e-mail accounts will be upgraded to 100 megabytes, a move spurred by Google's plans to offer 1,000 megabytes of free storage through its Gmail service, which has remained in a test phase since early April.

Yahoo has been offering 4 megabytes of free e-mail storage, although some people with accounts opened several years ago have 6 megabytes of free storage.

Sunnyvale-based Yahoo disclosed that it would be increasing its free storage to 100 megabytes during an analyst meeting held last month, but hadn't provided a specific time for the upgrade until now.

The company hopes to appeal to e-mailers in other ways, too.

Angling for new users, Yahoo has decided to let people begin signing up for addresses that have been inactive for years. The offer is designed to lure Web surfers who may have been previously interested in signing up for a free Yahoo e-mail account only to learn one of their preferred handles had already been claimed.

"Some of these addresses could be very juicy and might attract a lot of interest," said David Ferris, an e-mail analyst in San Francisco.

Yahoo says "tens of millions" of dormant e-mail addresses will be made available again. The company also say it will improve the tools used to search its e-mails -- a feature that Google has been touting -- and spruce up the service with a cleaner look.

"This is a highly competitive marketplace and we have been listening to our customers so we can build the things that our users want," said Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo's vice president of communications products.

A Google spokesman declined to comment on Yahoo's changes or the company's Gmail service. Mountain View-based Google can't say much about Gmail or its other products because the company is pursuing an initial public offering of stock, which requires management and other insiders to remain mum.

Although it's still not available to the general public, Gmail has received widespread publicity since Google unveiled its plans to get into the free e-mail business just a few weeks before the company's IPO filing.

Not all the feedback has been positive. Many privacy watchdogs and some lawmakers have railed against Google's plans to electronically scan e-mail and deliver text-based ads related to the topics correspondents are writing about -- something Yahoo insists it will never do.

Gmail, nevertheless, appears to have the makings of a hot commodity. Some people already have been buying restricted invitations to sign up for early Gmail accounts on eBay, with some bids surpassing $60. Google has been steadily expanding Gmail's reach by allowing existing accountholders to send invitations to friends and family to join the service.

Yahoo operates the most popular free e-mail service on the Web. The company's e-mail service attracted 39.8 million unique users in April, trailed by Microsoft Corp.'s Hotmail service at 34.6 million unique users, according to Nielsen Net/Ratings. The Hotmail service offers only 2 megabytes of free e-mail storage.

During the past three years, Yahoo has been trying to drum up more revenue by selling subscriptions to premium e-mail accounts that offered more storage and other features, such as stronger protection against junk mail. The company has never disclosed how many subscribers pay for its premium e-mail service.

Well, this explains why I couldn't get to http://www.yahoo.com, but could get to mail.yahoo.com earlier -- http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u ... _2004jun15

I had to wait until I got home to answer this, but yes, there is a difference -2GB of space!!

However, it is REALLY SLOW, but that's probably due to what happened to the main internet sites today.

Slow is the word!! I logged in to my
Yahoo (main account), and, almost dozed-off
while waiting...never loaded....forget it! I'll
try my e-mail at another time, another day.

I got my own gmail today as well. Now i have a huge gmail account and a pretty big yahoo account

They should of sent anyone with a Yahoo! mail account an email explaining what happened.

I like this new 100mb tho.

I have noticed a change...it's bigger, which is great...