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[Ashy]

Gmail is more than 2 GB now i think... and for few more months/years Gmail will have 3GB and more than that after.... A non stop counting o_o so gmail is gettin bigger and more bigger..

[leeleelee]

I use my yahoo account more than my Gmail - Ive let my Hotmail just slideaway. I do use my domains email most of all though.

Yahoo Mail vs. Gmail

When Google announced its Gmail service, it set a new standard for capacity, offering a full gigabyte of storage for each user. Gmail was designed as a search-centric system -- by offering so much storage, Google encouraged users to simply store all messages and search to find them, rather than using a traditional folder based filing system.

Many other web-based email services announced similar capacity enhancements, but did little to improve the searchability of email.

Yahoo's upgrade puts its email system on a par with Gmail. Although the 100 megabyte free account is less than Gmail's 1 gigabyte limit, Yahoo does not count spam or trash messages toward the total.

In addition, Yahoo has removed advertising from messages in Mail Plus accounts, and has no plans to serve contextually based text advertisements at all, according to Garlinghouse. Gmail messages sometimes include contextually based text ads based on a machine scan of the contents of your email.

The primary difference between Gmail and Yahoo mail is that Gmail has threaded messages, allowing you to see all exchanges of a particular subject grouped together. Gmail also occasionally returns web search results based on a contextual scan of the content of your mail.

If you're still pining away for a Gmail account, Yahoo's revamped email service is an excellent alternative. Garlinghouse says that the company plans to continue enhancing the service throughout the year.

Yahoo is also releasing "tens of millions" of dormant or unused user names today, allowing you to sign up for a more meaningful user name than in the past.

Yahoo does require more personal information than Google on its registration form for email, but registration also provides you access to other Yahoo services, such as the excellent My Yahoo personalized service, Yahoo photos and Yahoo Messenger.

[Alissa]

I have several e-mail addresses, all at various places around the web. I have a lot of them on yahoo!, some on MSN (that I haven't touched in years), and just recently I registered a second e-mail address on gmail. It's cool how gmail has a built in chat feature. My boyfriend and I were having fun with that the other day, haha.

[Helium]

Another gmail user here
I like it, even though I don't use the webinterface a lot... I have thunderbird installed now it's easier and much faster to get your mail with it

[pumpitboy1]

I like using yahoo because i can log into it from my instant messenger and it is really easy to use. by the way, how do you get gmail, i cant find it

[brandice]

You need an invitation, I believe there is a section here dedicated to exchanging invites.

like alissa, I have had a bunch of different email accounts at a bunch of different places. I can't even remember all of them. I've pretty much given them all up for my gmail. It has nothing to do with the amount of space provided (although I am an email packrat and I never delete anything) I like the way you can give one message more than one label. That's so much better than the old folder system.

[wariorpk]

I use Gmail it is by far the best e-mail provider out there. As far as space they surpassed the 2 gigabyte mark a long time ago. They also have a sweet search feature so you can find old messages you thought were long gone. The archive feature lets you keep old messages seperate from important ones. Its just a great email provider and I recommend that everyone use Gmail.