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Google is announcing pricing for its app engine service for Web application hosting Wednesday, maintaining a free tier, then charging for storage of more than 500MB of data.The company at its google I/O conference in San Francisco also will expand access to the service and add APIs for caching and image manipulation. The service has been in a limited preview period since early April.The pricing plan has developers still getting around 500MB of data and 5 million page views per month for free. After that, developers will pay 15 cents to 18 cents per GB of data stored monthly, according to google.Also, developers will be charged 10 cents to 12 cents per CPU core-hour consumed. On the bandwidth side, developers will pay 11 cents to 13 cents per month per GB of data transferred out of App Engine and 9 cents to 11 cents per month per GB transferred into app engine, Google said. The pricing schedule is to be effective later this year.Through its App Engine program, Google is looking to addre