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Lycos Europe Launches 1GB Email Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 18, 2004 - 8:09am.
London -- Beating out larger rival Google, Web portal Lycos Europe on Tuesday launched an email service with one gigabyte of storage space -- which would hold more than 550,000 emails, 2,000 photos or 250 songs. The ad-free service, which unlike Google's advertising-supported Gmail will cost about $6 per month, went live in the U.K. on Tuesday, with other European countries soon to follow, the company said. "The research we've done shows that privacy and security is incredibly important to consumers," said Lycos Europe Portals and Communications Vice President Alex Kovach. Google has been increasingly criticized in Europe, where customer advocates have argued that the ad technology Google will use to search within email texts in order to target ads at users violates user privacy laws. Yahoo also recently announced that it would increase the amount of free email storage it offers users from 4MB to 100MB.
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