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Monday, July 2, 2012

King of E-Mail, Gmail with 425 Million Users

King of E-Mail, Gmail with 425 Million Users

Gmail managed to become king in the global e-mail service, Hotmail has even been defeated. On Friday (06.28.2012), Google announced that Gmail has 425 million monthly active users.

First released in 2004, Gmail is an e-mail service younger than strong competitors such as Hotmail and Yahoo Mail.

Gmail is significant developments when viewed from Google's internal data. On January 2012, Google announced a 350 million monthly active users in the Gmail. With this, Gmail has increased the number of users reached 75 million people for about 5 months.

On July 2011, the month when Hotmail celebrates 15th anniversary, Microsoft announced that Hotmail has 360 million unique users per month. Until now, Microsoft has not released recent official data Hotmail users, as well as Yahoo.

However, if you look at the data from third parties, the number of Gmail users have not shifted position Hotmail and Yahoo.

Site analyst firm comScore said that Hotmail still occupy the highest leadership role for e-mail service with 325 million unique visitors.

The second position is occupied by Yahoo with 298 million users, and then Gmail shadowing in third position with 289 million users.

Vice President Andrew Lipsman comScore, said the data the company based on the calculation of the global unique visitors "home users and businesses".

However, comScore did not calculate the use of e-mail from a smartphone or be accessed by Wi-Fi internet connection in the cafe, for example. "There are some users who are not counted," Lipsman admitted.

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