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- somespecial, on 12/26/2007, -7/+241Not surprising at all
- mediaphile, on 12/26/2007, -3/+99Especially when you take into consideration that Gmail has only recently become fully publicly available. The whole invitation thing really limited the amount of new users that could sign up. Granted, it wasn't _that_ hard to sign up, but it definitely played a part.
This of course has nothing to do with the actual _quality_ of each service. Yahoo mail is still a slow pile of *****. - silentphoenix, on 12/26/2007, -4/+80and as projection shows...gmail will take over, but by then, google will have taken over everything
- Nerfdude, on 12/26/2007, -0/+55yahoo email has been around for like, what, ten years? how would this be surprising at all?
- mojaam, on 12/26/2007, -2/+56There are many reasons for this of course. Yahoo Mail been around longer for one. Then you have google's gmail giving you more flexibility by easily allowing you to set it up with your own mail program like Thunderbird for free.
- manicallday, on 12/26/2007, -11/+55Further, you automatically get an yahoo email account when you sign up for their instant messaging services. Most of these accounts just collect spam.
So... I guess this mystery is solved. Good job gang. - chedabob, on 12/26/2007, -1/+32How many of those Yahoo accounts are spammers though?
- inactive, on 12/26/2007, -1/+27i still have a yahoo account that i use for stupid emails i don't want to see on a regular basis, use gmail for the real stuff, and of course integrating gmail with your mx owns
- socalrob, on 12/26/2007, -3/+27I account for at least 2 of the Yahoo user accounts just myself. Of course I use it for junk email. One for complete utter junk email (but I may need one time activation code) and one for more important junk email. One has 5-10k emails in it (constant flow of spam) and one has only a few hundred.
So by that, that means that Yahoo must be full of more junk email than anything else. Yahoo is the king of disposable email adresses! - askjoe, on 12/26/2007, -4/+28I believe Yahoo was in the email game long before Google......and even tough I had a Google Account several years ago ....them leaving it beta mode forever didn't seem to help either.
- morningmatters, on 12/26/2007, -0/+19It's difficult to switch accounts when you have been using one single account for all communications with friends/business contacts for years. Most of us probably have friends who use multiple accounts and it's frustrating to guess which they are using at the moment, so I try to avoid doing the same. For a brief time I switched to gmail because the additional storage space it offered. Once yahoo also expended its mailbox size however I switched back. Technically gmail is superior, but in terms of emailing function there are not enough differences for people to switch.
- ineedaname, on 12/26/2007, -3/+21Yes, yahoo mail has been around much longer than gmail.
- williamdyer, on 12/26/2007, -8/+20Yahoo mail is pretty spiffy. Some people don't realize Yahoo is quite progressive in enabling AJAX applications. I would rather use YUI for apps than GWT.
- Linh, on 12/26/2007, -1/+13I actually hate yahoo's new interface. It's tooo clunky. I fear google will eventually be the same. All this web 2.0/ajaxy stuff is SLOW
- DaviDaviDaviD, on 12/26/2007, -8/+19Not suprising. I have used Yahoo mail since 2001 and it's great to be honest. I have no problems with it at all and Yahoo is a nice homepage anyway. Gmail is my secondary though so it's not bad.
- Fungo, on 12/26/2007, -1/+12Not to mention all the spam that I got with my yahoo account FROM yahoo email addresses. And to socalrob, I also use my yahoo account solely as a throwaway.
- BPShirase, on 12/26/2007, -1/+11i get spammed from yahoo addresses, maybe the higher number is because of multiple spamming accounts?
- mirunit, on 12/26/2007, -1/+11Surprising ? Yahoo was out first, and was free first.
- jamesrdorn, on 12/26/2007, -0/+9Yahoo has most of it's customer base in ISP portals, not individual Yahoo.com email accounts. Hopefully Google will pick up on this at some point -- Disgruntled ISP Tech Support Rep.
- vdgmr1213, on 12/26/2007, -0/+9Ever hear of Gmail IMAP?
- FoxOrian, on 12/26/2007, -0/+9I'm still so glad GMail recently got IMAP support. Email makes sense on my phone now.
- catalysis, on 12/26/2007, -1/+9Hey, keep telling yourself that using gmail makes you cool and it might actually happen. /s
- gn0stik, on 12/26/2007, -1/+9GMAIL, Interface, interface, INTERFAAAAAAACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Drgn547, on 12/26/2007, -1/+9Yahoo mail has been around a lot longer than GMail... and with their upgrades to unlimited storage and the last gen. interface (I'm not a fan of the new one), why switch to GMail if you're already established? (I have both GMail and Yahoo accounts)
- rmxz, on 12/26/2007, -1/+8Another reason is that Yahoo for the longest time have very small (5MB, 10MB) accounts. I have 3 Yahoo accounts, and 1 gmail account. I don't really use any of them, though; except automatically forwarding a copy of any emails from my real account to gmail for archival purposes. I'm even thinking of stopping doing that (for privacy reasons) until I can figure out how to encrypt that forwarded copy.
- felchdonkey, on 12/26/2007, -0/+7No one should try Plaxo. I swear, I get more spam from them than I know what to do about. Constant auto-updates from people asking me to "update my contact info."
***** Plaxo. - jnelson76, on 12/26/2007, -1/+8Seems like alot of people use Yahoo for their spam mail like me.
- chesscat, on 12/26/2007, -3/+10Yahoo may be bigger but I also get 50 times more SPAM than in my Gmail account.
- cnldelta, on 12/26/2007, -0/+7Well considering Yahoo has been around since the early 90s and has a strong user base in Asia (which has the worlds largest population.) In Asia internet users are most likely to use an internet cafe's instead of their own computer. I guess a cafe going internet user doesn't mind spam as much.
- gl77, on 03/31/2008, -4/+10my psychology class group at school has 6 people in it including myself and we have to email each other about assignments. of those 6 people, i was the only one with a gmail account. as for the other 5 people, one has a hotmail account, the other 4 have yahoo mail. when i gave them my email address one of them even asked if gmail was some sort of military email account...........i politely told her it was google email and she was like "oh......" and had a confused look on her face... i also told my g/f's brother that he should get a gmail account, he didnt know what it was. i told him it was google email and he said "google has email?" so i sent him an invitation and he now has gmail.....converted him. this story is not suprising to me.
- blaket, on 12/26/2007, -1/+7If by mystery solved you mean you didn't read the article then yea. That was unique visitors.
- kenvsryu, on 12/26/2007, -3/+9firefox 3 doesn't like yahoo, me neither.
- Woecip, on 12/26/2007, -1/+7...he was hacked after vising ***** sites with no protection.
- turbopro, on 12/26/2007, -2/+8seriously, how long can something be in beta?
- rnreekez, on 12/26/2007, -1/+7Ditto, I have about three accounts. Then I realized I could use bugmenot or mailinator now those accounts sit dormant waiting to be taken out back and deleted.
- sinurgy, on 12/26/2007, -4/+9I guess I just don't know what speed is because my Yahoo Mail doesn't appear slow to me at all, especially with the switch to their "beta". I suppose I'm going to get dugg down but I happen to like it just fine. I have a few gmail accounts floating around but my main one is still Yahoo and I've found no convincing reason to switch. btw...not bashing Gmail either, it's fine as well. I just don't see either being particularly special.
- PetroSan, on 12/26/2007, -0/+5Didn't the graph show the stats for unique visitors?
- JQP123, on 12/26/2007, -1/+6"...but by then, google will have taken over everything"
I don't think so. As Google grows larger and more pervasive, the chances of a consumer backlash grow as well in my opinion. Google is an advertising company. Everything they do is aimed at increasing ad revenue. Their *free* services facilitate user profiling which is in turn facilitates targeted advertising. At some point, users will start to realize that placing their most private email and documents in the hands of an advertising company may not be such a good plan. - Galume, on 12/26/2007, -2/+7Exactly. Gmail is more skeletal in appearance which I prefer to all of Yahoo's clicks and clutter, but it also makes it less poplular with the eye-candy dependant masses. Not to mention how long Yahoo has been out compared to Google.
- finalfantasyIII, on 12/26/2007, -3/+8I like Google mail. It's smart and allows me to be as lazy as possible. I have to click too much with Yahoo mail.. Hotmail.. windows/ mac mail clients like Outlook Express.
- sittered, on 12/26/2007, -0/+4Man, I almost dugg you up. Resist the urge to bring him into it. He is not an automatic digg-up.
- Tophillious, on 12/26/2007, -0/+4Google will be the next Umbrella Corp.
- fotbr, on 12/26/2007, -10/+14And some people don't give a damn about buzzword-of-the-week web-technology.
I want something I can use via IMAP or POP. Google fills that requirement. I don't care what their web interface looks like since I don't use it. - sittered, on 12/26/2007, -2/+6Yeah, Google should release the POP/IMAP request data and then we'll see how big the gap is.
- GeorgeClayton, on 12/26/2007, -4/+8Not surprising, since gmail is relatively new. If you looked at the rate of growth, then that's where the numbers are REALLY at.
- r0b0, on 12/26/2007, -1/+5The command line is fairly friendly to me... maybe it just doesn't ;like you?
- blaket, on 12/26/2007, -0/+4The did, you see unique visitors means people actually, you know, visiting.
- Scottypants, on 12/26/2007, -1/+5Maybe it's because Gmail only recently removed itself from invite-only status?
- yodaj007, on 12/26/2007, -0/+4Look up http://www.spamgourmet.com sometime. I've used it with my email account for years. I barely get any junk at all.
- yunus, on 12/26/2007, -1/+5I have Yahoo and gmail, I use Yahoo for signing up to places to help prevent junk mail from arriving in my real gmail mailbox that I use everyday. So I visit Yahoo every time I sign up for a service online but I don't consider myself a Yahoo user. I am betting I am not alone in this.
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