According to ComScore, a marketing research company, Gmail is now the third largest email provider in the United States. InformationWeek broke down the numbers, revealing last year Gmail grew a remarkable 46 percent, from 25.3 million to 36.9 million users. Gmail is now on pace to overtake Windows Live Hotmail, at 47.1 million users, in around seven months.Gmail has continued to grow most likely due to its apps, like Google Docs and Google Calender which take standard desktop applications into the "cloud." Gmail's growth did not even seem to be slowed by its perpetual beta tag which was just removed earlier this summer.
Yahoo Mail continues to lead the pack when it comes to U.S. email providers with 106.1 million visitors last month. Yahoo offers unlimited storage to users across several different available domain names making it very difficult for competitors to keep up. Yahoo's continued popularity is likely also due to its media and entertainment portal including sites like Yahoo Sports and OMG which continue to receive more traffic than competitors ESPN and TMZ, respectively. So while it's likely Gmail will overtake Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo is apparently not going anywhere.
Use them ONLY for storage and still get a ton of spam. Just shows you what all the fan boys can do for stats!!
Just like Firefox, doesn't matter that it isn't worth a squat, but when you have all those clueless people telling all those other clueless people how cool it is........
I have 4 gmail account and one specifically for spam. my main one maybe gets 1 spam mail every2-3 months.
so if you abuse your account, then you've only yourself to blame.
Stop signing up for **** on the internet and you don't get spam. It's really not that difficult. In 4 to 5 years( don't remember exact time-frame, but I was a gmail tester) that I've been using gmail I've NEVER recieved a single spam message, and neither has anyone else I know.
So before you fire off about clueless people maybe you should just stop telling the world how stupid they are and look at all the different services you're actually signing up for, and know the difference between what to trust and what to not.
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Stop signing up for **** on the internet and you don't get spam. It's really not that difficult. In 4 to 5 years( don't remember exact time-frame, but I was a gmail tester) that I've been using gmail I've NEVER recieved a single spam message, and neither has anyone else I know.
So before you fire off about clueless people maybe you should just stop telling the world how stupid they are and look at all the different services you're actually signing up for, and know the difference between what to trust and what to not.
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Hate to ruin the rant boys, but i get SPAM to a gmail account Ive never even used once..
How it happened god knows, i only signed up to secure a nickname
(happened in my three gmail accounts which I only got to secure the username)
Stop signing up for **** on the internet and you don't get spam. It's really not that difficult. In 4 to 5 years( don't remember exact time-frame, but I was a gmail tester) that I've been using gmail I've NEVER recieved a single spam message, and neither has anyone else I know.
So before you fire off about clueless people maybe you should just stop telling the world how stupid they are and look at all the different services you're actually signing up for, and know the difference between what to trust and what to not.
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Hate to ruin the rant boys, but i get SPAM to a gmail account Ive never even used once..
How it happened god knows, i only signed up to secure a nickname
Im sure it happens to some people - i just checked mine, and thats not the case though.
In either case, its still excellent - quick, well layed out, etc. And i've NEVER had spam miss the spam filter, or real emails go into the spambox. So grats google, keep up the good work!
How it happened god knows, i only signed up to secure a nickname
Was it an easy to guess name? If so, spammers prolly just went down the list of possibles and hoped for the best. I just hope you didn't click ANYTHING.
Ah well, i never get any spam and i've been with Gmail for a little under a year.
I use my hotmail account mainly... but even that has no spam, so really i think its down to the person.
How it happened god knows, i only signed up to secure a nickname
Some email addresses just attract spam...
like city-i-live-in-sex@gmail.com I'm sure gets spam all the time, and
i-want-a-bigger-penis@gmail.com as well
but if your name can't be turned into anything sexual for spammers, well then...that's weird
Wait, are the people complaining about spam saying they get too much spam in their inbox or too much spam in their junk mail? Would you prefer if messages tagged spam were just instantly and never sent to junk mail?
Use them ONLY for storage and still get a ton of spam. Just shows you what all the fan boys can do for stats!!
Just like Firefox, doesn't matter that it isn't worth a squat, but when you have all those clueless people telling all those other clueless people how cool it is........
Here's the thing with Gmail. You may get a lot of spam, but you never see a lot of spam. I cleaned out my spam folder on the 14th and I already have 63 messages of spam. But they are ALL in my spam folder. In that sense, "I get no spam" I also use pop3 access so it automatically puts all the spam in my spam folder at the server end and I never see a single one.
My point is, Gmail has the worst user interface, and doesn't have the type of skins that can stand up to Windows Live's user interface. Hotmail delivers better features, great spam filter that is easy to use, and can link your Windows Live IDs and connect to other email addresses you have and display them in your Hotmail at a glance. With Bing's pictures as an extra, and simple questions answered by the search engine itself, it really is a good search engine. The entire Windows Live experience beats Google's *nix experience any day.
Why I said this is because simply why would you want to switch from Hotmail to Gmail? You are going from a great service to a junky one. They got so popular because of a beta tag and an invite-only style of signing up. I used to love Gmail until I realized it sucked compared to Windows Live Hotmail and got popular because people just wanted it because it was invite-only and had a beta tag just like everybody wanted in on the Windows Longhorn beta...
Sure you do, I think you are getting hotmail and gmail confused. I have been using gmail since the beginning, when you needed an invitation. I have not seen a spam for months. But don't let facts get in the way of your raving lunatic rants.
The fact that MS "innovated" hotmail, and have never managed to get it running on Windows servers is hilarious. Of course, it is the only way they could get it to server so many people, without building a server farm as big as texas.
I so agree with Electric Jolt. Hotmail is much better since the MSN days.
Yeah, I guess you really like advertising rammed down your throat, outlook forced design so much that it looks ridiculous, and incredibly slow servers. And that is with the backend running on BSD, imagine how slow it would run on Windows Servers??
Can't you already do this by having Gmail import mail from your other POP supporting accounts? I currently have gmail pulling in mail from both an old yahoo account and my isp's account. Gmail even goes the extra step and allows me to reply using addresses other than my Gmail address, for example, I could have all replies sent from me@myisp.com instead of me@gmail.com.
I have 1 Windows Live account, I send e-mail and chat with others on WLM. Feeling great.
Furthermore, there is one big ad that can be blocked.
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Furthermore, there is one big ad that can be blocked.
I agree. I like Hotmail myself.
Furthermore, there is one big ad that can be blocked.
I agree. I like Hotmail myself.
What a surprise everyone, MLyons comes out loving Microsoft yet again, just all the other 1000s of posts he has made. Congrats on being stuck in the past.
Google are very good at what they do. That is starting to get worrying though.
I immediately deleted my YouTube account, and went to delete my Google Check-out account too. But the sneaky b'stards don't let you, unless you let go of your email address too... So the lot went.
Be very careful with whom you sign up with. All of a sudden they have a whole lot of information on you, without you realising. I suggest keeping all on-line services separate and disparate.
First, take off your tinfoil hat. Second, if you used your Gmail address when signing up for your YouTube account that would explain how it knew, and since your Gmail username doubles as your Google Accounts username they can just use that directly to make things more user-friendly. The same happens on social networking sites that offer the ability to import/invite friends from an email address book--the import options will always default to the provider of the email address you supplied when you registered (if that service is supported, that is). These sites aren't using voodoo or invading your privacy to deduce these details, they just take what you have already given them and connect the dots.
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But I would have used Hotmail or Yahoo mail, I just got used to gmail and can't be bothered to swap.
I use Yahoo Mail for crap and GMail for important stuff. Point is that I still use Yahoo Mail.
I use Hotmail and don't have any issues with it. It works well with Windows Live Mail, and I've haven't got any spam, and I barely ever notice the ads.
MS is scared. Gmail has no fear.
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