Prize Fight: Yahoo Mail vs. Gmail
Web e-mail powerhouses fight for Veronica.
(Credit: CNET Networks)Veronica Belmont pit Yahoo Mail (beta) against most geeks' favored e-mail service, Gmail. If you're aiming to dump your current PC (or Mac)-based e-mail app and move to the Web, this is a good, basic comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of the two services.
I'll tell you right now that Gmail won, by a nose. Click through to the video to see how Gmail performed in each round of the fight: Interface, Features, Speed, Organization, and Security.
Rafe Needleman writes about start-ups, new technologies, and Web 2.0 products, as editor of CNET's Webware. E-mail Rafe. 





I was a long time user of Yahoo! Mail but had to many error messages in the last months. And there were too many mail delivery delays.
So at the moment my webmail favorite is Windows Live Hotmail. Just rediscovered Hotmail - nice new interface, fast, reliable.
new Hotmail is quite good but I encoutered errors quite a few times. (nonstop loading, slow, checkboxes nto working). 50-50 I would say between gmail and hotmail.
Yahoo Mail receives 8.8/10 and Gmail receives 7.2/10
- by tigrad04 June 23, 2008 5:56 PM PDT
- I have to admit I am a huge Gmail fan. I chose Gmail because unlike the previous people I am really bad about putting mail into folders so I love the great Google search of my email. Also Gmail provided many things for free that Yahoo made you pay for. for instance email forwarding and filtering. Also the ability to forward my email to Windows mail or any other client I preferred. Even though you can't use folders you can still label and archive your emails which is basically the same. Gmail for me is the winner.
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