Comment The Popularity of Gmail... (Score 1) 264
...tends to be overestimated. This comes as a shock to me---and probably you---as Gmail is most popular among those who are younger, collect higher household incomes and are classified as early adopters by marketers. But overall Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail are significantly more popular than Gmail, at least according to statistics compiled by Hitwise Intelligence released in May 2006:
http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2006/05/google_yahoo_and_msn_property.html
Gmail, which has only garnered a 2.54 percent market share, is dwarfed by Yahoo Mail's market share of 42.4 percent. Additional statistics also compiled by Hitwise compare Google, Yahoo and MSN across a number of categories. Predictably, Google dominates the search category but as noted above the webmail category is a different story. Likewise Google Maps is significantly less popular than Mapquest and Yahoo! Maps.
Seriously!?!? The popularity of Mapquest relative to Google Maps rankles me the most. I wonder how these statistics have changed in the last 12-16 months.
http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2006/05/google_yahoo_and_msn_property.html
Gmail, which has only garnered a 2.54 percent market share, is dwarfed by Yahoo Mail's market share of 42.4 percent. Additional statistics also compiled by Hitwise compare Google, Yahoo and MSN across a number of categories. Predictably, Google dominates the search category but as noted above the webmail category is a different story. Likewise Google Maps is significantly less popular than Mapquest and Yahoo! Maps.
Seriously!?!? The popularity of Mapquest relative to Google Maps rankles me the most. I wonder how these statistics have changed in the last 12-16 months.
