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I was talking to my dad 2 days back that he should switch to gmail now.He said he is happy with yahoo. I told all use gmail these days.He said,”i dont think so”.So we thought why not just check out the stats. So we started googling relevant articles on it.Then i found out this link on hitwise which consists of all the major website stats on net.
The ranks of mails were as follows
1. Yahoo Mail
2. Hotmail/Windows Live
3. Gmail
4. AOL

Gmail was far behind Yahoo Mail.Google as a website is number one in the world but Gmail is not even close.

I was caught offguard.I thought all my friends use Gmail.Majority of people whom i know use Gmail.So Gmail would be far ahead .But Reality was different when i saw the stats.I also found this table below which had the growth rates of various mail sites.

Gmail is rising but still Yahoo is way ahead.

I dont remeber when last did i use yahoo messenger.I chat with everyone on gmail(gtalk) mostly.

Why are stats not consistent with the observations ?

Then i was reminded of Orkut which was a rage in india in 2006-07 in india but then i had heard that no one really uses it in US or Europe.I had heard Brazil and India were two countries where Orkut was being used the most.So i thought is this the same case with Gmail.

So when i researched on Indian data about the mail giants,i found this interesting piece of stat.

According to data released by Komli Media’s online audience measurement and analytics platform ViziSense.com, Yahoo Mail, with 18.3 million unique users in India, leads the email category in the country, followed by Google’s Gmail which has 17.2 million users in the country. The other three leading email service providers in India are Rediffmail, MSN Mail and In.com Mail with 6.5 million, 4 million and 913,000 users respectively.

This data still gave me some hope that my observations were not that bad afterall.The global scene is different from the indian scene.Here in India Gmail is just equivalent to Yahoo Mail in terms of users and seeing the growth rate of Google it soon will topple yahoo from its numero uno position.

I think in countries like US and European nations,Internet and Email revolution started way back than our country.So yahoo mail and Hotmail being early players in the mail market are still strong.Normally people maintain only one free email account and maintain it over the years.

Whatever the standings,I was actually surprised and pleased to know these facts about Yahoo Mail and Gmail.

Is this what is called the First Mover Advantage ?

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