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According to data released by Komli Media’s online audience measurement and analytics platform ViziSense.com, Google’s email service Gmail attracted 18.2 million unique users from India in September 2009, as against Yahoo Mail which attracted 16.8 million unique users. Rediffmail, MSN mail and In.com mail are the other three most popular email services in the country.

During September 2009, Gmail witnessed an increase of 2.82 per cent in traffic compared to the previous month. Yahoo Mail on the other hand, saw a decline of 7.69 per cent. Rediffmail also witnessed a decline of 7.13 per cent. Microsoft’s MSN Mail and Web18’s In.com email service, however, experienced an increase of 5.6 and 2.7 per cent, respectively in traffic since August 2009.

ViziSense has clarified that the above numbers for Yahoo Mail represent the unduplicated reach of both Mail.Yahoo.com and Mail.Yahoo.co.in, as well as YahooMail.com. However, the numbers do not include the usage and access of Yahoo Mail through the new Yahoo homepage.

Citing reasons for not including the usage and access of Yahoo Mail users through the new Yahoo homepage, Amit Bhartiya, business head, ViziSense, said that the new Yahoo homepage has a slide that allows users to access mail from the homepage itself. “ViziSense only tracked the URLs Mail.Yahoo.com, Mail.Yahoo.co.in, and YahooMail.com and not the Yahoo.com (homepage) as besides email, there are a whole lot of things that the user can access from the homepage,” Bhartiya told AlooTechie.

and why is gmail the best? well, here are just a few reasons:


Gmail was probably the first email system that was built purely for the Web. The drag and drop functionality that Yahoo and Microsoft use is really a desktop email function ported to the Web, whereas Gmail came up with something Web-native - automated labeling.

Gmail’s integration with Google Calendar, Chat, and Maps feels logical and not forced, and if there have to be ads on the page, we prefer Google’s text messages off to the side over Microsoft’s banner ads any day.

True to the Web 2.0 spirit of sharing, Gmail’s open code enables devotees to hack new features.

Currently, gmail is available at 29 different languages, and they are working on more. In most e-mail services, you have only english available. There are many that also allow the local language of the providers, so you'll normally have one or two languages to choose from. Another point for gmail.

Gmail automaticlay groups reply / re-reply chains into "conversations". Not only does this save space in the inbox, it also alows you to review the entire chain of e-mails should you need to before you reply. I find this particularly useful.

The search technology is Google so it does give out excellent results.

The space is increasing.

Without a doubt, Gmail blocks the most spam.

There's something so appealing about receiving an e-mail from someone who attached a Word document or Excel spreadsheet and being given the option to open that attachment in Google Docs. And being able to switch to Google Calendar and Reader from Gmail cuts down on time spent on managing your day.

Gmail's filter feature is the best in the business. Period. Unlike its competitors, which try to provide a filter tool that simply re-routes incoming messages, Gmail delivers a power user's dream. In a matter of seconds, you can create a filter that searches through all incoming mail looking for specific people or keywords and once found, immediately categorizes it into a specific folder, forwards it on to someone else, or moves it to the trash, to name just a few functions.