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gmail's market share

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zimu

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just read someplace that gmail's market share has crossed hotmail's.

anyone know where i could get the trend/ statistics for this?

thanks 🙂

for e.g.: 100 people. 10 use gmail. gmail's market share is 10%. somethign like that.
 
yes, gmail specifically 🙂

like the email turf wars. what % of people use hotmail, yahoo, gmail etc.
 
Originally posted by: LoKe
Gmail is google. 😵

EDIT : Oh, you want Gmail specifically? -,-
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Nah, zimu was only asking about Gmail specifically, I guess he wanted Google's total marketshare.

:roll:
 
by shares i don't mean stocks and share prices.

i mean share of the market. like ok, here are 100 people. 10 use gmail. hence, gmail's share of the 100 people is 10%.

did i ask a really difficult question or just not phrase it right??
 
hey hang on a sec, i did say trends/ statistics. anyway, whatever, hopefully my question is more clear now!!

so anyone got an answer? 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Mrvile
...you didn't phrase it right.
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How did he not phrase it right? I knew immediately what he was talking about. Unfortunately, I don't know the exact statistics.
 
Fine, I'll give a real answer.

Originally posted by: Forbes.com

Rosoff says the impact on Microsoft will be minimal from a financial standpoint. Only 5% to 10% of Hotmail's free users are thought to have used the Outlook feature regularly. Hotmail is thought to have between 170 million and 180 million active users.

But the change might create a competitive opening for rivals Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) and Yahoo (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ), which both operate popular Web mail services. Hotmail is still the leader of the pack, with a 33% percent share of the market, according to research outfit Radicati Group of Palo Alto, Calif.

Yahoo is nipping at Hotmail's heels with 30%. The firm estimates there are between 300 million and 400 million active Web mail accounts in use globally. It offers two gigabytes of storage for $20 per year and allows its users to access their mail with external e-mail programs via so-called POP3 protocol.

Google's service, which launched in April and unleashed an arms race to boost storage, is still not out of its public Beta-testing phase, but has captured a 4% market share, which is sufficient to make it the third most popular Web mail service on the Internet, says Radicati analyst Marcel Nienhuis. The remaining 33% of the market has been carved up by others in the space including Lycos, a unit of TerraLycos, Sina.com in China and Excite.com, a unit of AskJeeves.
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mwtgg- exactly what i was looking for 🙂

although i was hoping for something more recent-- your article is from 28 september 2004, and i'd bet my life savings that things have changed "a little bit" since then...
 
<bumping old thread> maybe someone can help me search, it being a friday and nobody wants to work on friday!
 
Originally posted by: zimu
<bumping old thread> maybe someone can help me search, it being a friday and nobody wants to work on friday!
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is it still in beta and only by 'invite'? once it goes official, and out of beta, i defintiely see the webmail market being more competitive
 
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