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With ymail you have add a lot of stuff to yahoo website just like music, news, videos and more....
Gmail doesn't suck is a lot faster, efficient and very professional.
I got a google phone and I can find everything I want just with a click
Try igoogle.com and you'll see.
Just get two accounts with two different domains and that's it.
IT´S SLOW, IT´S MESSY, IT GROUPS MAILS BY SUBJECT MESSING WITH THE DATES, AUUUGGHHH!!! I´M BACK TO YAHOO.
"Yahoo Mail now offers unlimited storage - but Gmail is now killing them with features and great integration with other Google services."
What features exactly are you referring to? Yes, Gmail has great features, but they haven't added anything significant in years and they are still in beta. Are you referring to "Snakey," perhaps? Give me a break.
And "great integration with other Google services?" Gmail is integrated with Google services, sure. But they don't improve on anything Yahoo offers. Yahoo has a calendar (and I think they integrate it better in their mail client), notepad, etc. With their purchase of Zimbra, I'm sure it will only get better.
Do I like Gmail? Yes. Does Gmail have some nice features? Of course. But I think you are really exaggerating when you say they are just blowing away the competition in features and storage. When they first launched they were innovative, but no longer. I, for one, would like to see gmail innovate again.
http://socialpo.st/2008/06/18/dear-gmail/
A very recent addition - perhaps aimed at advanced users, but still significant - was Gmail Labs. POP and IMAP support were also quite big in my opinion.
Of course, you can find most of what Gmail offers in Yahoo mail. But the fact remains that Yahoo waited for Gmail to innovate and then followed suit, and now it feels like they're always playing second fiddle, even though they are the market leader in this field.
Yahoo adds new features quite regularly, Gmail doesn't. Does anybody write about when they do? No. All I'm saying is, give credit where credit is due. Gmail is good, and Yahoo is good. It's not like Yahoo is this awful email client and Gmail is just awesome. They both have their strengths and weaknesses, and I don't think it would hurt to acknowledge that. They are just different and appeal to different folks.
However, it is not just email features that is makes Gmail so compelling. Here are a few: Google Docs. Google Sites. Google Reader. Google Notebook. And, for corporate users, Google Apps for Domains, which includes some great enterprise features in the back-end. These are FREE for educational institutions and non-profits. Sure, non-corporate end-users can link some of these services by setting up Google accounts and still use Yahoo, but having access to a wide range of secure, integrated services which are available for both an end-user and corporate environments is quite compelling. And best of all, there are none of those annoying display ads.
You just have to try Gmail to see what a difference their approach to email is, and why so many people like it. Yahoo has a LOT of
catching up to do.
I'll give Google credit for one thing: their marketing. They've convinced an entire generation that you have to use Gmail to be one of the "cool kids," and that anyone who uses another service is an idiot.
I have a Gmail account too, and the service definitely has some great features. But I got tired of waiting for Google to fix Gmail's biggest annoyances and I doubt they ever will.
you can get your name@mail.com, email.com, usa.com, writeme.com and a lot of great other names through mail.com
Why don't google or yahoo buy mail.com? Is it not the greatest mail/email name ever?
I wonder how long it'll be before Yahoo's lawyers send me a nastygram? They shouldn't, given I live in Australia and I was using the name long before they were, but you know how the big guy/little guy thing pans out.
I only mention this because I usually get 50 hits a day to the yMail page, and today it's already 1500.
Look at registered email addresses for both, and Yahoo! still triples that of Google.
Also, Yahoo displays annoying image ads on the mail whereas gmail ads are not so annoying. Even those can be blocked using plugins available for firefox.
Wow. Just wow.
Oh and they are in beta (still!) --- you want trust you everyday communications to something in perptual beta? At least Yahoo gives an option of production or beta interfaces.
Finally, GMAIL is horrible at spam. I have spam on gmail accounts I HAVE NEVER USED (except to register them).
As a precaution, I regularly check my SPAM folder for possible messages over the past several months. I think I'll stop doing that now. Not one message observed during this time time has been a legitimate message that was tagged as SPAM.
Best regards,
Stan
I pay $20/year for ad-free, clean iterface with pop access. Why do I pay? Nobody offers everything for free. Did you think GMAIL is ad-free? Well, it is not right? It scans your personal emails.
and of course a lot of spams and a lot this and that before you can attach and send emails!!!
unlike Gmail....
Regards,
Man
http://probedeep.blogspot.com/
thanks!
If i use yahoo.com, i must sign in at yahoomail.
If i use rocketmail, where are i must sign in. .
When i sign in in rocketmail, always has some problem.
Please help me and how to register my Blogger at adSence. .
Please give me advence in indonesia language...
Please help me....
intro me . . .