What's good about Gmail?

Question

do you find it better than hotmail for example? what features do you like about it?

Answer 1

A better question is what is NOT good about gmail

As far as comparison to hotmail, it smokes it completely. Just the spam filtering alone is second to none.

Hotmail actually signs you up for spam.

Answer 2

Hotmail is better than Gmail, there are ten reasons for that:



1. Hotmail might be sucks, but the new version hotmail - Windows Live Mail is damn near perfect, does very well against gMail.

2. Try using gMail w/o internet access. Where’s the offline functionality? I’m sorry folks but Verizon EVDO and those T-Mobile hot spots aren’t everywhere yet. Have you tried using an AJAX app w/ a slow cellular net connection? (talk about a fate worse than water torture). Wanna gMail on a plane? Sorry, no can do. Until ClearWire takes over the world, a desktop / offline e-mail is a requirement for me.

3. If you use POP/SMTP w/ Outlook and store your mail client side, your limited only by your computer’s hard drive space. (didn’t Google’s CEO say 2GB ought to be enough for anyone)

4.That said, web e-mail is also a requirement for me. Which is why I use Outlook Web Access 2003. OWA still kicks the living snot out of Gmail (on IE anyway). Remember kids, the OWA team practically invented AJAX (they called it Remote Scripting back in 90s). They were the team that convinced the IE team to include an XMLHTTP object with the browser! Without them, there would be no gMail. That said, the FireFox version of OWA 2003 sucks. In partial defense of MS, the last version of OWA shipped before Firefox 1.0 was released. I’ve heard OWA 2007 will have much better FireFox support. But if you use Firefox only (I use IE & Firefox), then I admit OWA 2003 won’t do it for you.

5. Hosted Exchange servers aren’t that expensive. I currently use Intermedia and have the ability to add/remove mail boxes, change storage quota, etc. I’ve heard 1AND1 is even cheaper.

6. Privacy. What if the US government decided to Subpoena Google and read your e-mail? Don’t think it doesn’t happen. Granted, Live Mail would also be a target of govt. snooping, but my Exchange server probably would not be.

7. Calendaring. Can you type “2 weeks from Friday” into a gmail appointment form and have it resolve to “Fri 9/15/2006″? You can with Outlook! Get a real date parser!

8. Contacts. Where the heck is the mapping integration w/ address info in gMail? OWA & Outlook have had this since the Web 1.0 days. I know cause I wrote that feature for OWA for Exchange 5.5 (way back in 1998)!

9. Looking for Tasks & Notes? Sorry Google doesn’t have that either.

10. API support - Google may offer an API in the future, but Microsoft offers that today

Answer 3

i do not think there s anything extra ordinary. i been using it last
4 yrs i think. yahoo is also good as g mail. i feel it has a little bit more speed downloading. however there are times occasions when it is worser than yahoo. it may be due to server connectivity etc. people want to have gmail as a craze i think. it is a myth. all are excellent generally. now streamlined to a standard. still there are many features left out in all. I love all,. use all.for variety of purposes, like personal, poetry, groups, computerdownloads, emags, etc
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Answer 4

1) Large storage
2) Access via web & pop
3) Ability to link other accounts
4) GREAT spam filters
5) User friendly interface
6) Ability to tag emails, sort, and search

Probably the best free email account there is!

Answer 5

I havent found anything especially good at all,,,, thou interested to see answers,,,

Answer 6

you are given 2 gigs...