Gmail became the most used email in the world

Gmail became the most used email in the world

It was 1996 when some characters called Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith decided to start the service called Hotmail. Given the success, Microsoft decided to pay $ 400 million to take control of the tool and begin to succeed with an email based on the web to be called MSN Hotmail.

First steps in Gmail

In 2004 appeared on stage a new service, this time enacted by the search giant: Google. Google Mail or Gmail, in its most popular shorthand, was planted in the big market as free email to follow in the footsteps of Hotmail.

Google had already embraced its global leadership with your Gmail mailbox, but is now a neutral company which confirms the data. ComScore, a company that measures the web traffic, estimated that Gmail had 287.9 ​​million unique visitors in late October, against 286.2 million Hotmail, owned by Microsoft.

Yahoo! is located in the third place of the podium with 281.7 million users, but still holds the lead in the United States (76.7 million). U.S. visitors represent 27% of global email accounts of the company led by Marissa Mayer.

Gmail’s success is driven by the good performance of the tool and the integration of a large number of improvements that make it more personal inbox email. In addition, the proliferation of new services embedded in the own Google (Calendar, Google Docs, Picasa, Drive, etc.) has led to the loyalty of users who in turn have integrated these tools into their new devices (tablets and smartphones) for use anywhere and with good performance guarantees.

Congratulations Gmail! Good work.