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- gamesam43, on 10/12/2007, -6/+56gmail wins hands down. they were the first to offer loads of space and the first with the spam filters and so i think they will be first with whatever deveoplments come next in emailing.
- tinygibbles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+44Gmail offers free POP. Gmail wins.
- negativefx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40I created a MS account to try out the new live mail. Within 2 hours, I had over 150 spam messages in my inbox, and around 20 in the actual spam folder. I've been using gmail for over 2 years, and have probably gotten a total of 5 spam emails in my inbox...ever. It has never falsely diagnosed a valid email as spam.
To me, that sure sounds like there is something special about gmail. It works. ***** hotmail. - leontes, on 10/12/2007, -27/+55There's nothing special about gmail. Easy use and amazing features, massive amounts of room and fantastic interface is so overrated. I'd rather use yahoo and share their advertisements at the end of my email by default, or use hotmail that always sounds a bit like a pornsite. So, for god sakes. Let's not put it on a pedestal or anything, brilliant design is so passe.
- utcursch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22The article doesn't have an explicit conclusion, but here is what they want to say:
GMail > Yahoo! Mail > LIve Hotmail
Also note that they wrongly mention that GMail is not RSS integrated. GMail has got RSS integration, and it's called "Web Clips":
http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=18219&ctx=en:match - qwickone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21I laugh at you for paying for what you can get for free.
- orangysb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20what i like about gmail is its function of combining e-mails of the same correspondent into one thread, i find it pretty convenient, and of course the tagging feature which completely abandons the need to sort and categorize each e-mail by dragging into folders, furthermore the integration of google calendar, you can just add entries into the calendar from the e-mail
but i do like yahoo's tabs feature though, hope they would implement it in gmail - undersky, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Gmail is absolutely amazing especially for how fast it refreshes (instantly).
When an email arrives, it automatically shows up without reloading the page. If the browser window is minimized, it still displayed on the tab.
PS: If I open two gmail browser screens on two PCs, if I read an unread email on one PC, on the other PC that email immediately turns from unread to read!!
The most amazing thing is its free forwarding and integrating for multiple send-from addresses. I can use gmail to send from as many addresses as I want to and people won't know that I am using gmail.
I set up all my other clients (pop and exchange server) all forwarding to my gmail account, then forward my gmail account to my blackberry address. This is the only known method that you can push all your email from different into your blackberry! (Most pop don't support blackberry push.)
So when someone wrote me an email, rather to gmail, or my work email that forwards to gmail, I will literally hear the BEEP from my blackberry and read the email within 4 seconds.
Yes, sometimes less than 2 seconds, literally, emails arrives just like that to my blackberry. This says a lot about gmail. - masgrada, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14I completely forgot about spam on gmail.
At Hotmail all I get is spam and the mail that I do want, they put in the spam folder. - falconfox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Hold "shift" when you click "compose". learn the keyboard shortcuts, they save time also.
- markdr123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+120.18 cents or 18 cents?
Also, I second qwickone's statement. - tateswayz91, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Hotmail IS my spam folder.
- MCHampster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10One of the most important features that Gmail has the the others don't is the lack of advertising at the bottom of every email sent out. Having some stupid ad at the bottom of your email serves to make your email look quite unprofessional. I honestly don't know if Hotmail includes a tag anymore, but I'm pretty sure Yahoo still does.
That combined with POP3 support easily makes Gmail the winner for me. - undersky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7it has been available since day 1...i have like 3 of them set up.
- rudy23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6If only Gmail could interact with exchange and sync my calendars and contacts I would get rid of outlook in a second.
- shaen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Gmail's RSS integration may be lacking but you can get feeds in your Google homepage.
- kaplanfx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Hmm, I'm not sure why one would want RSS integration in their email client, the two don't seem to have much to do with each other. Google does have a killer RSS reading app that's all AJAXy, it's called google reader and it's a favorite of mine.
-Kap - cawpin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4monergism - You may have a job, but at least we're not working for Verizon.
- undersky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4it's simple. yahoo does not have free forwarding, and gmail has free forward PLUS copy to gmail inbox.
so, if Apple partners with yahoo, gmail users can simply create a yahoo account and forward gmail to yahoo, then yahoo will push to iphone, all happens instantly.
if apple partners with gmail, then yahoo users will be left out in cold since they can't push their email or forward to gmail. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4GMail actually handles RSS properly, (it says it doesn't in the article).
- Dochtuir, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6You don't need an invite, or a phone :
https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?service=mail&t=949b274d-47ac8b76-0e9ba088730f63e034e9&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2Fe-11-10405f3f930406f05610718f0dcf1d1c-59eddd6ffeb067a0dcb0fd99a0a20596f2f14de6&type=2
Sign up link on the gmail homepage. - wayniethep00p, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4http://www.duggmirror.com
Is it gone already?? =( - ralphie81, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That's not a bad feature, you're right. But browsers also have this thing called tabs, which work just as well. Falcon's solution works too for a new "window".
- falstaff, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Hotmail was last gen's MySpace. Everybody who uses it thinks it's cool, but everybody else knows better.
I use Yahoo and Gmail. All of the Yahoo properties are well integrated, so going from My Yahoo to Mail to Groups is seamless. One-stop shopping. Of course, all of Google's tools are more powerful, so even though it takes forever to load Gmail or Reader, and there is no integration (Google has always resisted becoming a "portal"), they provide a better service within each application.
They both fill different needs within the larger market, and since they're both free, there's little use in making it an 'either-or' situation. - HardwareLust, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Still, Yahoo mail has recently been running pretty fast..."
Really?? They're using a different Yahoo beta than I have been. Beta has been, and remains, *glacially* slow.
I'd change to a different service, but after all these years (so long I can't count them) it's too much of a PITA to switch addresses now. - markdr123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yes, but not quite the same as fully-featured RSS integration. You just get a random item from one of your feeds at the top of each page.
- undersky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Okay, once for all, let me use this picture to show you that gmail can:
1. Import POP accounts.
2. Send from multiple send-from address.
3. Automatically send from addresses it received from.
http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kchou/gmail.gif - Daniel0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It says Gmail hasn't got RSS, but that is not true...
- uggidi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I love gmail. The interface is clean, simple and very easy to use. Like Orangysb mentioned, I like the conversation feature too. Most of the times I email to a group of friends and they reply back to everyone and I can view the whole conversation in a combined email. A great feature. Also the ability to chat with your friends through mail, but I still wish these was an invisible status. I started using the docs & spreadsheets recently and it is a very comfortable feature.
Yahoo mail is good, but the beta version that I tried was too slow and it just somehow made me switch to gmail.
I used hotmail long time ago, I use it now sometimes.. it is bad and too slow! - Vidi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not really, all it does it look for words, such as Football, Basketball and American Football, looks up into a directory of ads, and finds football, and then displays some of the ads in that directory, it'll never understand your email, the only people who could would be real people.
- Sware, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Gmail spam filter is superb, I've been using it roughly for one year and I only got 1 spam mail that bypassed it. I also use the gnotify which works instantly.
- hakz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I hate Live hotmail, the interface is crap and doesn't even load properly half the time.
- eboskie1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have been using hotmail's live desktop beta for some time now and I have to say I really like it. Double click the icon and it connects to your hotmail account, downloads the emails to your computer (which I like but some might not) and has built in RSS for my new egg and woot! and with 2 gigs of storage I'm pretty happy :)
- naxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yep. Pretty good RSS reader. http://www.google.com/reader
- dynacrylic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I haven't used live hotmail yet so I can only speak on yahoo and gmail. I prefer gmail over yahoo, BUT there is one feature I still prefer over yahoo. In yahoo mail your are able to open messages in multiple tabs/windows, whereas in gmail you cannot (at least I haven't figured out how to). It's more than aggravating sometimes to click on the message, then click compose, then click back to something else because you 4got something, then jump back into compose.
- austindkelly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually if you are trying to get DirectPush mail for your mobile device, I offer a service though http://www.Port88.org that gives users free exchange accounts to ActiveSync with on thier mobile device. Most of the users I have just forward thier Gmail/Yahoo (whatever) to thier Port88 account and then have an alias setup so it sends from thier Gmail address. It's a pretty simple solution. Hopefully Gmail will allow exchange intigration soon, so I can incorporate syncing of Google contact and calanders on the fly as well.
Anyways its there if anyone is intrested. - captinherb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2dynacrylic right in that you can't open an email in a new tab.
- undersky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This picture shows you the powerfulness of gmail forwarding
http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kchou/gmail2.gif - astrosmash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The GMail ad-bot is no different than virus scanning or anything else. Any webmail service, including Yahoo, Hotmain, etc, needs to read your email before it can even display it for you.
Keyword-specific ads does not imply the presence of some sort of extraordinary knowledge about your email habits, nor does the lack of keyword-specific ads imply that your webmail service *isn't* collecting extraordinary information about you.
Basically, you're protected by American privacy laws which compel companies to disclose exactly what information they retain and how they use it. More importantly, plain email is not and has never been secure or private. - Woknblues, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1because it is in beta.
- 47knight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I concur, Gmails spam filter is amazing.
Link to Gmail Notifier: https://mail.google.com/mail/help/notifier/notifier_windows.html - jj2me, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm with you. I can't understand why people like POP3 so much. Without synchronization of local and server copies of e-mail, which IMAP gives, don't you have to choose one of these two evils?
1) choose to remove server copy on download: then it's my responsibility to store and backup e-mails. This seems good only for those who clear out their inbox(es). Or
2) choose to keep the server copy: then a local delete on the PC won't sync to a delete on the server. This seems good for those who keep all messages in their inbox(es).
For those who want to delete some and keep some, IMAP is best, especially if you have more than one PC.
Or am I off base on this? - kualla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My question is how did this make the front page of Digg... I thought almost all digg users were geeks and any geek would know that a comparison between the three email services is pointless because Gmail is clearly the best email out :P
Maybe someone needs to create an article titled "What features does Yahoo and Hotmail lack that Gmail has" ;) - DnasTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is there a reason for this comparison?
The only negatives I can see there for Gmail are RSS (which it has) and non-Outlook-like interface... I was able to convince my not-quite-so-young and not-quite-so-willing-to-learn-new-uis father to try Gmail and get away from Outlook. He got the hang of the interface in minutes. - Stopher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Does anyone on Digg really need this article?
- xxdesmus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is a weak ass review. It's missing things all over the place.
That being said, Gmail is definitely not the winner. Gmail lacks folders (labels suck), it lacks the ability to sort a group of messages by a category (can't sort by ascending/descending date for example), Gmail slows down the more you use it (if you have a conversation with more than 5 responses Gmail slows down noticeably), Gmail's spam filter is horrible. I easily get 2x as much spam leaking through as I do with Live Hotmail.
I know Digg is also Google fanboy heaven as well. So go right ahead and digg me down for making fun of your precious Gmail. - koick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't even have to RTFA, one ROCKS the other two suck, duh.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2And THAT, my friend, is where Yahoo! kicks butt (except for exchange). http://help.yahoo.com/us/tutorials/mail/ab/ab_intellisync1.html
- HigheR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Only people who hate on gmail are those that didnt get it earlier so they have to use @googlemail,com instead of @gmail.com
- mastercheif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The reason why they did that is because gmail does not support push at all. I'm pretty sure the push email on the iPhone is based off of imap, and gmail has yet to implamnet imap.
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