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Yahoo beefs up e-mail. Should you ditch Gmail?
Clip and save this handy pro-and-con guide to the leading Web-based e-mail systems.
By Farhad Manjoo [2007-08-27]

  • Two leading web-based email systems????

    From a userbase standpoint (which is the primary metric for measuring web-based applications), the number one and number two web-mail applications would be Yahoo! and Windows Live Hotmail. Gmail is a distant third with about 1/4 the userbase:

    "A February, 2007 article in TechCrunch gives user numbers for Yahoo! Mail (250 million), Hotmail (228 million) and Gmail (51 million), but does not cite the source of the numbers." (source: Email Marketing Reports - http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/metrics/email-statistics.htm)

    I realize you have a certain bias against Microsoft, but you should try to maintain some modicum of professional journalism and base your articles on facts. Just because it is associated with Google, doesn't mean that Gmail is a front-runner...yet.

    -- crunchette
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    Monday, August 27, 2007 11:27 AM
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