Secret: How Gmail could afford 5GB suddenly

The homepage of Gmail shows that the capacity of Gmail account is over 5GB now. Now that is very good news indeed. But how did Google increase the space from 2GB to 5GB suddently?

Computer World reports that some Gmails users are complainig about deletion of the data in their Gmail accounts. They logged into their accounts one fine day and saw that all their data were gone. And they swear that this is not the case of a password/idenity theft. Most of them are experienced internet users.

Now, we know where Google got their extra space from.