This story – Google tests waters with terabyte e-mail limit | CNET News.com – reinforces what I thought before, but not strongly enough to even dwell on.

It means two things, actually – the first is trivial, and it means that storage is really becoming a commodity, and will only get larger and cheaper as time goes on. The whole Moore’s Law applied to storage scenario.

The second point is the interesting one: By upping to a terabyte (wow!), Google is pretty much encouraging people to never throw anything away.

But if you do that, how do you find what you need in all that clutter?

Search.

Who (today) does this best?

Google.

Crazy like a fox…

Update: Yep, this was just a software glitch. However, I still stand by what I said, and I back it up with another C|Net story: Google moves toward clash with Microsoft (actually a NY Times story, running on news.com…but no registration!).

Sure, Google indexes the Web. Billions upon billions of files. How hard to index that even “massive” 120G home hardware drive? Not hard at all, thank ya…