Yahoo! Announces ``New and Improved'' Yahoo! Mail, Introduces Major Increase in Storage Space, Makes 50 Million Additional E-Mail Addresses Available

Business Wire, June 15, 2004

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 15, 2004

Yahoo! Mail Gets a New Look and Feel,

Continues Robust Security and Commitment to Privacy,

Filters More Than 95 Percent of Spam

Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today unveiled a new and improved Yahoo! Mail (http://mail.yahoo.com), the No. 1 e-mail service in the country, measured both by reach(1) and by the percentage of people who identify Yahoo! as their primary personal e-mail account(2). Yahoo! is leveraging years of customer insight with key innovations to deliver a product that responds precisely to what consumers want and need in an e-mail service.

Yahoo! is introducing a number of exciting enhancements to Yahoo! Mail including a major increase in storage space for both free and premium users. Free e-mail subscribers will automatically be upgraded to 100-megabytes of storage, 25 times more than the prior free offering. Premium customers, including subscribers to SBC Yahoo! Dial and DSL, will have virtually unlimited storage at 2-gigabytes, far in excess of any major e-mail service and 200 times the amount offered by most other Internet service providers. All users will benefit from the new design and improved search capabilities, and graphical ads will be removed from Yahoo! Mail Plus and SBC Yahoo! Mail, all of which make Yahoo! Mail easier and faster than ever. Additionally, the company is opening up more than 50 million Yahoo! IDs, giving consumers more address options for their e-mail accounts.

The company is focused on continually innovating and improving Yahoo! Mail, and a number of additional product enhancements are expected to follow in the coming months.

"Our unique experience as an e-mail pioneer and innovator in the communications space - coupled with insights gleaned from our tens of millions of loyal customers - helps ensure we are delivering the best e-mail product possible," said Brad Garlinghouse, vice president, Communications Products, Yahoo! Inc. "With the new Yahoo! Mail, consumers won't have to think about mailbox size. When they judge webmail value, they'll continue to look at all the things that make Yahoo! Mail No. 1 - including privacy practices, superior spam and virus protection, and integrated calendaring and alerts."

Yahoo! Mail: No.1 and Now Better Than Ever

The overall goal of the improvements are to extend Yahoo!'s position as the market's leading e-mail product - which means adding useful new features, while maintaining and even improving the experience for the company's millions of loyal e-mail customers. Key elements of the new features being introduced today include:

-- Streamlined design - Although still comfortably familiar, the

new look of Yahoo! Mail is easier than ever to use. Yahoo! has

developed an even cleaner design that allows consumers to

quickly and easily read and compose e-mail while eliminating

graphical ads for premium users entirely.

-- Increased storage & message attachment size - Leveraging

consumer insights around what users want and need, Yahoo! has

introduced new storage levels. Yahoo! inboxes now allow

message sizes up to 10-megabytes, and 100-megabyte mailboxes

for free users and virtually unlimited storage for premium

customers with 2-gigabyte mailboxes. The new mail storage

sizes follow last year's changes to Yahoo! Photos, when the

company began to offer unlimited free storage for photo files.

-- Faster search - Yahoo! Mail inboxes are easier than ever to

manage, thanks to even better search capabilities at faster

speeds.

-- More account names - Yahoo! is releasing more than 50 million

Yahoo! IDs allowing consumers more freedom to pick the Yahoo!

e-mail ID that best suits them. These Yahoo! IDs include a

number of highly sought after names that have been dormant for

many years and are just now being put back into circulation.

Safer, More Secure Inboxes

These enhancements supplement Yahoo!'s industry leading virus and spam protection. Protecting people's inboxes has been a key priority - and as a result, Yahoo! Mail automatically scans e-mail attachments to help protect consumers from viruses and consistently filters more than 95 percent of spam(3) thanks to SpamGuard, Yahoo!'s proprietary spam filtering system.

"We know that the longer a consumer has an email account, the more likely they are to be targets for unwanted e-mail, which is why we are constantly fine tuning our spam controls to tighten the noose around the necks of spammers," continued Garlinghouse. "We don't think consumers should or will accept an e-mail experience that degrades over time. Yahoo! Mail enjoys high regard among tens of millions of long-standing and loyal customers and we think that is thanks in part to our unending vigilance in protecting their inboxes."

About Yahoo! Mail

Launched in October 1997, Yahoo! Mail (http://mail.yahoo.com) is one of the Web's largest, most popular free e-mail providers. Yahoo! Mail helps people stay in touch at home, at work or while traveling for business or pleasure. Yahoo! Mail is fully integrated with Yahoo!'s many other popular services to make it easy to access all the Internet services people need. Yahoo! Mail has received a variety of prominent industry accolades including "Best Free E-Mail" for three years by PC World, and CNET Editors' Choice awards.