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What will be the second site to hit that landmark, does it even exist yet?

by shutton 14y ago

navs 14y ago
How does google stack up against Facebook in numbers? I don't mean Google plus specifically but I've always been under the impression that anyone signed up with Facebook probably has a gmail account.
- k-mcgrady 14y ago
  >> "I've always been under the impression that anyone signed up with Facebook probably has a gmail account." Why do you think that (seriously asking)? Gmail didn't become available to the public until 3 years after Facebook launched (admittedly Facebook was initially limited to certain groups of people). Before I signed up to Facebook Hotmail was still very popular with everyone I knew, mainly because they all used MSN Messenger. It's only been in the last 2/3 years or so I've seen most of the people I know default to Google when creating an email account. Up until then Hotmail was all people really new.
  - drumdance 14y ago
    Huh? Gmail was announced in April 2004. http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2004/04/google-gets-message-launches-gmail.html http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2004/04/google-gets-message-... Facebook (or rather, TheFacebook) launched just a few months before at Harvard.
    - k-mcgrady 14y ago
      But it was invite only until February 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail
shawndumas 14y ago
What's Yahoo!'s numbers?
- shawndumas 14y ago
  Found it -- "Yahoo! branded sites reach approximately 700 Million unique users per month." [1] ---- [1]: http://www.quora.com/How-many-unique-visitors-are-there-to-Yahoo-each-month http://www.quora.com/How-many-unique-visitors-are-there-to-Y...
  - runako 14y ago
    The Yahoo uniques are not all authenticated users, so this is a very different comparison. Facebook is counting only people who have registered for an account, logged in, and then did something.
shutton 14y ago
Rough numbers for popular web mail services. GMail ~425M Hotmail ~350M Yahoo ~300M (http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/metrics/email-statistics.htm http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/metrics/email-statist...)
kanzure 14y ago
> What will be the second site to hit that landmark, does it even exist yet? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent "As of December 31, 2010, there were 647.6 million active Tencent QQ IM user accounts,[1] making Tencent QQ the world's largest online community. The number of simultaneously online QQ accounts has sometimes exceeded 100 million.[7]" Definitely beats gmail's 425 million.

What will be the second site to hit that landmark, does it even exist yet?

by shutton 14y ago

What will be the second site to hit that landmark, does it even exist yet?

navs 14y ago

How does google stack up against Facebook in numbers? I don't mean Google plus specifically but I've always been under the impression that anyone signed up with Facebook probably has a gmail account.

k-mcgrady 14y ago
>> "I've always been under the impression that anyone signed up with Facebook probably has a gmail account." Why do you think that (seriously asking)? Gmail didn't become available to the public until 3 years after Facebook launched (admittedly Facebook was initially limited to certain groups of people). Before I signed up to Facebook Hotmail was still very popular with everyone I knew, mainly because they all used MSN Messenger. It's only been in the last 2/3 years or so I've seen most of the people I know default to Google when creating an email account. Up until then Hotmail was all people really new.
- drumdance 14y ago
  Huh? Gmail was announced in April 2004. http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2004/04/google-gets-message-launches-gmail.html http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2004/04/google-gets-message-... Facebook (or rather, TheFacebook) launched just a few months before at Harvard.
  - k-mcgrady 14y ago
    But it was invite only until February 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail

shawndumas 14y ago

What's Yahoo!'s numbers?

shawndumas 14y ago
Found it -- "Yahoo! branded sites reach approximately 700 Million unique users per month." [1] ---- [1]: http://www.quora.com/How-many-unique-visitors-are-there-to-Yahoo-each-month http://www.quora.com/How-many-unique-visitors-are-there-to-Y...
- runako 14y ago
  The Yahoo uniques are not all authenticated users, so this is a very different comparison. Facebook is counting only people who have registered for an account, logged in, and then did something.

shutton 14y ago

Rough numbers for popular web mail services. GMail ~425M Hotmail ~350M Yahoo ~300M (http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/metrics/email-statistics.htm http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/metrics/email-statist...)

kanzure 14y ago

> What will be the second site to hit that landmark, does it even exist yet? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent "As of December 31, 2010, there were 647.6 million active Tencent QQ IM user accounts,[1] making Tencent QQ the world's largest online community. The number of simultaneously online QQ accounts has sometimes exceeded 100 million.[7]" Definitely beats gmail's 425 million.