There’s a rather interesting post made by TechCrunch this weekend regarding Gmail overtaking AOL and has become the number 3 largest web mail service in the U.S. The post was citing recent estimates made by comScore. My initial reaction was -Really? All the while I thought Gmail is the largest web mail service? The post was citing latest estimates by comScore wherein Gmail has gathered 37 million unique visitors in July, surpassing AOL, the no. 3 web mail service with its 36.4 million unique visitors in the U.S. So now officially, the three search giants are also the three major players in the web mail service. It’s about time.
Quite interestingly also, TC’s post has elicited tons of comments coming from all three camps – Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail users. The comments are quite interesting to read as well.
Some users are highlighting the privacy threats posed by using Gmail, while other have gone as far back as tracing the history of Yahoo getting ahead of the web mail battle.
Other points raised were regarding email storage capacity, less spam attacks, and what-have-you’s.
And here’s another interesting point, this issue came right after Google has announced that Gmail is now out of beta. The signal has been sent – Gmail is ready for battle. And Google is out to conquer the web mail arena the same way that they did with Google Search.
So, which web mail are you using? As for me, I’ve stopped using Yahoo Mail for my online business transactions in favor of Gmail. I still maintain my Yahoo Mail account but only for personal use since most of the groups I participate in was created under Yahoo Groups. Yahoo Groups is still the most used online discussion group and remains one of Yahoo Mail’s strongest points. May be Google should also start looking into Google Groups to compete effectively with Yahoo Mail.
I think slowly and steadily Gmail will become no. 1…for the past 3 years I am only using Gmail. I think Yahoo mail is also good but I still wonder why people use Hotmail..no idea at all
I have both gmail & hotmail but use Mozilla Thunderbird to collect both. Having a gmail account has its benefits and hotmail has other benefits
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i am personally a yahoo girl and have used them for some time now and really cant complain. Never really liked hotmail it just wasnt for me and the spam filters used to put absolutely everything in there. My husband who has been with hotmail for sometime now has gone to yahoo.
However i have noticed a trend lately with my customers. I notice when i am replying to messages how many of them have a gmail account and its fascinating how big they have become and it really doesnt surprise me that they are third.
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Hotmail were my first mail so I’m still using it for this simple reason. I’m also having several different Gmail-accounts and I think Gmail will continue to get more users ans in the end outrank every other mailservice.
You make an excellent point about Google Groups. Their forum software needs work in order to compete with Yahoo. If creating and maintaining a Google Group was made much more user-friendly, more people would do it and thus – more Google accounts. Even though users can create a Google account and not use Gmail, I think it would be a natural transition. Google Groups has been neglected and overlooked by Google, IMO!
I only use Gmail. Massive fan. Cant wait to the bring video chat to Australia. That’s the difference – Gmail is always being innovative, Yahoo and Hotmail are always playing catch up. Google rocks.
Yes i have read this info somewhere else also today itself that Yahoo is still on No.1 in web mail service and now Gmail jumps to the no.3
I used both Yahoo and Gmail. One is better in specifics features and so the other. Because Gmail is better at collecting from others address and forwarding to another addresses too I used it as distributor to forward all what I received into it to my yahoo (or at lest the most important for me) . Since Yahoo is better sorting and searching emails and move on an over folders I can find easily my info. The logic is easier to got and manage in Yahoo than in Gmail. I have Hotmail too but I only used to access Live Messenger as well as Yahoo Messenger being better Yahoo. All email from Hotmail is read into Gmail and from then into Yahoo in chain. Its shame that all the good feats are not include in just one of them.
I used both Yahoo and Gmail. One is better in specific features and so the other. Because Gmail is better at collecting from others address and forwarding to another addresses too, I used it as distributor to forward all what I received into it to my yahoo (or at lest the most important for me). Since Yahoo is better sorting and searching emails and moving on folders I can easily find my info. The logic to got and manage is easier (more intuitive) in Yahoo than in Gmail. I have Hotmail too but I only use it to access Live Messenger as well as I use Yahoo Messenger being better. All email from Hotmail is sent into Gmail and from then into Yahoo in chain. It’s a shame that all the good feats are not included in just one of them.