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Gmail Takes Largest Webmail Service Crown

Posted by Unknown on from the nsa-scheme-proceeding-as-planned dept.

redletterdave writes "After several years of dominance, Microsoft's Web-based email service, Hotmail, has been unseated by Google's significantly younger webmail service, Gmail. Google announced it had about 350 million monthly active users in January; since then, that number has ballooned to 425 million." Remember when people ran their own mail servers?

2 of 383 comments (clear)

  1. android by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I dunno, maybe the fact of requiring a gmail account to setup an android phone has something to do with it maybe?

  2. Re:Maybe selection bias by stephanruby · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm surprised Hotmail just lost its crown. It has millions of spam accounts on there.

    Either their spam detection just got better, or the spammers themselves are leaving Hotmail because no one takes Hotmail seriously anymore.