Google Apps E-mail Storage Reaches 7 GB

My Google Apps Standard Edition e-mail account (like GMail, but I can use my own hostname instead of gmail.com) reached 7 GB. I just noticed it today, but it may already be there for a few days since I don't watch the GMail counter continuously.

The Thrash folder however still shows
No conversations in the Trash. Who needs to delete when you have over 2000 MB of storage?!

7 GB that is, if you use the same metrics hard disk manufacturers use. It's still not really 7 GB though.

Looks like I still have some space left after 4 years of e-mailing (I didn't import my old hotmail and student accounts I had before that):
You are currently using 472 MB (6%) of your 7007 MB.

I used a little trick (don't tell Google!) to import my e-mail from my old server. When you purchase a Premier Edition account, you have better tools to migrate your e-mail. After 15 days (and a successful migration) I downgraded my Premier Edition to a Standard Edition for free (you have 30 days to try it).

Google Date Search

Hundreds of other bloggers have probably already written about this new Google feature, but apparently I missed it. So here it goes...

You can go to the "advanced settings" page in Google and search for pages that Google found in a certain timeframe (the last 24 hours, the last week, ...). What makes it really interesting is that you can limit the results to a site, so you can use
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Apets.be&as_qdr=d
to get all pages from pets.be that were updated in the last day.

You can change the as_qdr parameter to:
d[number] - past number of days (e.g.: d10)
w[number] - past number of weeks
y[number] - past number of years

(from Matt Cutts' Blog)