Lycos owned by korean internet portal, Daum announced new email service with 3GB storage. This is the top of email stroage in the world. In future Lycos will up the limit to 5 GB of storage. With the new LYCOS Mail, users can now email photos, videos, music files and more in one message. Big storage will be useful to broadband users treated mutimedia files.

Lycos outsourced an email service to Outblaze till now. Last year, Daum started to develope the new email service and finished it with Lycos team well.

In fact, Daum has been most famous free email service provider in Korea since 1996 named Hanmail.net that has over 70% market share and over 54 million user accounts. Every korean users have one more hanmail accouts. (It’s fact!)

Although Lycos new mail is not based on Ajax, its interface is very simple and convinient too. Lycos Mail resembles the stable Hanmail system and is applied to new storage system similar with Google File System.

If Lycos can offer search and spam filtering as good as Gmail, it will be good choice. I work in Daum, but it’s my personal thought.