The rise of Gmail's popularity
Gmail indeed dominates the e-mail world. In India, Gmail's growth and popularity have been astounding.
(MARCH 11, 2007)
Gmail is now open to everyone
Then: Users of Google's webbased e-mail service Gmail will swear by it. Despite its invitation-only status, it became a de facto standard for private e-mail addresses across the world. Even though it was Sabeer Bhatia's Hotmail that started the concept of free web-based e-mail, the engineers at Google realised that with greater bandwidth and heavier file sizes, people wanted more storage; so on April Fool's Day in 2004, they launched Gmail with one gigabyte of storage and on the same day next year, they doubled capacity; today, Gmail's storage capacity stands at over 2.75 gigabyte. Gmail has worked very effectively for Google despite it almost donating away massive amounts of storage space (few users, however, use morethan a quarter of their storage) because Google has been able to weave its revenue generating AdWords contextual advertising into Gmail.
Now: Gmail indeed dominates the e-mail world. In India, Gmail's growth and popularity have been astounding. It overtook Yahoo! Mail as the most popular e-mail service in India in 2010 and has over 120 million users today. According to Google, 62 per cent of all Gmail users worldwide are Indians
Gmail is now open to everyone
Then: Users of Google's webbased e-mail service Gmail will swear by it. Despite its invitation-only status, it became a de facto standard for private e-mail addresses across the world. Even though it was Sabeer Bhatia's Hotmail that started the concept of free web-based e-mail, the engineers at Google realised that with greater bandwidth and heavier file sizes, people wanted more storage; so on April Fool's Day in 2004, they launched Gmail with one gigabyte of storage and on the same day next year, they doubled capacity; today, Gmail's storage capacity stands at over 2.75 gigabyte. Gmail has worked very effectively for Google despite it almost donating away massive amounts of storage space (few users, however, use morethan a quarter of their storage) because Google has been able to weave its revenue generating AdWords contextual advertising into Gmail.
Now: Gmail indeed dominates the e-mail world. In India, Gmail's growth and popularity have been astounding. It overtook Yahoo! Mail as the most popular e-mail service in India in 2010 and has over 120 million users today. According to Google, 62 per cent of all Gmail users worldwide are Indians
