News - Gmail is now the world's most popular webmail

[HEXUS]

According to independent ComScore data just published.

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[Geoff I]

I doubt if its the most used, I only set up a gmail address so I could join You Tube, and never ever use the address for sending and receiving mail.

[pp05]

That would make sense.

If you own an Android device and you want to purchase or download anything you need a Gmail account.

[jimbouk]

Yeah, my google registered non-gmail account wouldn't work with Android so I had to create a gmail account just for that. They're all linked to the same google account which is nice and I have started using the calendar, but I don't use it for normal emails.

[Smudger]

Are they counting all the businesses that have kept their domain but use Google Apps?

[Shad]

*overtaken

[Arthran]

Are they counting all the businesses that have kept their domain but use Google Apps?

exactly, I have 3 domains with their email being served by google apps

[cptwhite_uk]

Well I use g-mail, it's frankly a brilliant service and I love it's simple interface on any device I'm using, it's even nice on the Blackberry Playbook. I'm happy to keep it as my main e-mail, spam and sign-up get shifted to my hotmail these days where I let most junk rot.

[SUMMONER]

Google Apps all the way, best thing since the invention of sliced bread.

[kingpotnoodle]

Are they counting all the businesses that have kept their domain but use Google Apps?

And all the people with their own domain who use Google Apps free edition. It's a great little solution to avoid the hassle of running a server or the pain of using a registrar email account.

The privacy concerns are IMHO codswallop, as if anyone at Google is interested in reading my email. Perhaps a machine scans it to see what I like to target ads at me, but TBH if that makes the ads I must see a little less annoying then thats a good thing. I'd rather see ads for SSDs and laptops than pr0n and my little pony.

[TooNice]

It took longer than I expected. I have multiple accounts across different sources, from free webmails (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail), work and my private domain, but I must say that my gmails get the most use. One advantage it has over Yahoo, is full SSL session, as opposed to just the log-in (get on with the time Yahoo, I am only keeping you so far because you are the first webmail I've ever signed up to - but if I was about to shift all my stuff from Lycos to Gmail, I can do it from you too).

[Mike306]

I have a gmail account but don't use it, only got it for access to Youtube. I still use my hotmail address.

[Gordy]

I doubt if its the most used, I only set up a gmail address so I could join You Tube, and never ever use the address for sending and receiving mail.

Yeah, but the same can be said for yahoo and hotmail. I only have one of those for specific websites, I mainly use gmail these days. In fact the yahoo and hotmail accounts just get collected and filtered into my gmail account.

[Percy1983]

I only have one was android made me, still using my hotmail linked into outlook.

[krazy_olie]

As above, I suspect a large number of these accounts are laying fairly dormant /or only used in for signing in to google related stuff.
Same could be said about hotmail though.

Personally I find gmail awful to use, I still have an account which is linked to some bits, I access it via my hotmail.