Gmail vs. Yahoo [Archive]

Bharat Nain

15-06-2004, 16:10

Now Yahoo! is giving out 100 MB of e-mail space. Thoughts?

Yan Wang

15-06-2004, 16:14

The increase to 100mb is perfect for keeping current Yahoo! users with Yahoo! Switching emails and the hassle that comes with it will not be worth it for most. But for those who would like a better service, Gmail will win because of it's simple but highly functional interface. I'm certainly keeping my Gmail account.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/15/1226202&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=95

Joel J

15-06-2004, 16:18

Google is in a position that allows it to say it'll give out as much space as you want to hear. Lets say Yahoo bumps their number up to 1GB as well. Google can turn around and say "you get 1TB of space with our service." I mean, how much of that offered webspace will actually be used? Of course, at that point there would really be a debate (or a doubling up on email accounts), because the competition would have "leveled" the playing field. Thats why Google had to start out ahead and has to keep itself ahead in order to have any hope of taking a large bit out of this already mature market. Other email services will have to give us, the users, more, or they will wither away. Thats one of the good things about a capitalist environment, I suppose: it can be made in the best interest of the no-face's to give us more. But thats just one.

The one thing that really seems to bug people about Google's service is the privacy clause in the contract users have to agree to. But to that I say, doesn't every other webbased email service have your information and emails on hand? Yes, they currently do not use it in any negative way (that we know of), but companies lie and times change.

It all boils down to alot of back and forth, cause and effect, pandora's box type thinking that clarifies itself only after an action has been taken. Carry on.

Bharat Nain

15-06-2004, 16:36

I also noticed how slow Yahoo servers are currently. I dont have Gmail, so I dont know how fast they are, but Yahoo is bugging me right now, ugh.

Bcahn836

15-06-2004, 16:45

I have had a Yahoo account for a long time now, i am kinda looking for a change and I hope Gmail and give me that change. I just want something different. So far i havn't heard any complaints about Gmail, have you?

And yes the yahoo server has been a little slow.

Brandon Martus

15-06-2004, 17:25

I've been using gmail for about a day now (Thanks Yan!) and I am seriously considering moving from the ChiefDelphi server to gmail. (I'd keep my chiefdelphi address, but alias it to gmail)

Gmail is fast. Very fast.
The Gmail interface is intuitive, and new. I like new. It has features that most other e-mail and webmail systems don't have [labels, threaded discussions, etc]
1 GB. I have 6+ email addresses aliased to my chiefdelphi account, and even with my absurd amount of archived spam (30,000 so far in 2004) I have yet to reach 1GB.
Decent spam filtering. It has missed 4-5, but it has caught 20-30. It has room for improvement, but it is good enough for now.
Targeted advertising. Sure, its advertising, but it may provide helpful links. It's not in the way, giving me seizures, or annoying.
External images aren't shown until you request for them to be shown. I hate e-mail clients that are eager to show images. Images in email are a bad thing to begin with, and with the amount of inappropriate spam thats going around, this is a good feature.
Gmail: I like it.

Jessica Boucher

15-06-2004, 17:29

I'd love a gmail account...it'll be perfect to move stuff over to once I graduate.

On a related note, I saw this (http://news.com.com/Hotmail+giving+cold+shoulder+to+Google+mail%3F/2100-1032_3-5234567.html) in the paper today and found it quite humorous ;)

Joel J

15-06-2004, 17:33

Woo.. the article is about me :D. j/k, of course.

Astronouth7303

15-06-2004, 17:37

GMail. I've used Yahoo just enough to know that I'd like GMail more. I'm still waiting for an invite, though. (please?!?)

Greg Ross

15-06-2004, 18:10

I've been using gmail for about a day now (Thanks Yan!) and I am seriously considering moving from the ChiefDelphi server to gmail. (I'd keep my chiefdelphi address, but alias it to gmail)

Gmail is fast. Very fast.
I've rarely noticed Yahoo! Mail being slower than any of the rest of the internet.

The Gmail interface is intuitive, and new. I like new. It has features that most other e-mail and webmail systems don't have [labels, threaded discussions, etc]
Dunno. I haven't seen Gmail's interface yet. I've never had to read a manual to figure out Yahoo!'s interface yet. :p

1 GB. I have 6+ email addresses aliased to my chiefdelphi account, and even with my absurd amount of archived spam (30,000 so far in 2004) I have yet to reach 1GB.
I was surprised, this morning when I logged in to my Yahoo! account, and saw that they were now allotting 2(!)GB for my main e-mail account, and 1GB each for my two sub-accounts.

Decent spam filtering. It has missed 4-5, but it has caught 20-30. It has room for improvement, but it is good enough for now.
About the same percentage as Yahoo!'s spam filter does for me. If I go several days without logging in and clearing my bulk mail folder, I'll find 200 to 300 messages in my bulk mail folder, and usually less than 20 in my inbox that should have been filtered.

Targeted advertising. Sure, its advertising, but it may provide helpful links. It's not in the way, giving me seizures, or annoying.
Yahoo! FINALLY got rid of the super annoying Flash ::shudder:: advertisements. (So annoying, that I've been fighting, for a couple months, to figure out a way to banish, once and for all, Flash player from my computer.)

External images aren't shown until you request for them to be shown.
Yahoo! has had this option for a while.
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Gmail: I like it.
Gmail: I'm fine with Yahoo! for now. (Although, when I get a chance, I'll check out Gmail.)

Astronouth7303

15-06-2004, 18:15

Yahoo! FINALLY got rid of the super annoying Flash ::shudder:: advertisements. (So annoying, that I've been fighting, for a couple months, to figure out a way to banish, once and for all, Flash player from my computer.)

It is to my understanding (I'm not using GMail, so correct me if I'm wrong) that the adds in GMail are similar to the rest of Google's adds: small, unintrusive, text only.

Andy A.

15-06-2004, 18:20

Yahoo is now offering, for 20 dollers a year, 2 gb of storage.

Free accounts get 100 mb.

First webmail service to offer me more storage space then my current harddrive for free wins my heart.

Now here is an interesting question. Is there any bandwidth limit on your gmail accounts? Might it be possible to host large files for ftp or some other such trickery, and use gmail as your own personal little webserver?

Come on, some one's gotta figure that one out.

-Andy A.

Joe Matt

15-06-2004, 18:21

-The speed of Gmail makes yahoo seem like 28.8k. I'm running 56k, and Gmail runs circles around yahoo, especially after today
-Clean interface. No noise or not needed colors.
-Threaded emails
-Labels

I didn't switch from yahoo, I DUMPED them the moment I got gmail!

Joe Matt

15-06-2004, 18:22

sanddrag

15-06-2004, 18:43

Greg Ross

15-06-2004, 18:48

Yahoo is now offering, for 20 dollars a year, 2 GB of storage.

Free accounts get 100 MB.
My account is included with my DSL package, so, while it's not free, I don't pay extra for the 2GB.

Yan Wang

15-06-2004, 19:06

I'm not sure exactly what Gmail is but I'd have to argue that the best e-mail is paying $8 per year for a domain name and then like $2 per month for a host and then setting up e-mail accounts in CPanel and using Outlook. It is very worth the small cost.

I did that for mister@yan-wang.com

It was nice, but Outlook isn't as nice as Gmail, which in itself has a beautiful interface but also one which you can check from ANY computer with internet access. Outlook is just local.

And since Gmail is free, it completely beats out paying about $30/year for my own domain & hosting.

Adam Y.

15-06-2004, 20:36

The one thing that is nice about Yahoo mail that it has an antivirus program for viruses.

sanddrag

15-06-2004, 20:41

I did that for mister@yan-wang.com

It was nice, but Outlook isn't as nice as Gmail, which in itself has a beautiful interface but also one which you can check from ANY computer with internet access. Outlook is just local.You can do that with most hosting packages. It's just domainname.com/webmail While the features of that webmail program might not be as good, it works, and you get the address in outlook, and there is like NO spam or junk whatsoever (and if there is you can block the source through CPanel).

Yan Wang

15-06-2004, 21:13

sanddrag, I did use and still use webmail.yan-wang.com but the Squirrelmail interface is horrible compared to Gmail.

Elgin Clock

15-06-2004, 23:47

My account is included with my DSL package, so, while it's not free, I don't pay extra for the 2GB.
Iwww.. Are you locked into the fun of SBC/Yahoo service which has ruined Yahoo..

Anyways, I am perfectly fine now with my new bulked up Yahoo 100mb account.

Last night I was at 98% of my e-mail quota, now I am at 6%.

This makes "The Clock" happy!!

Do you Yahoo? I do!!:D

Greg Ross

16-06-2004, 01:43

Iwww.. Are you locked into the fun of SBC/Yahoo service which has ruined Yahoo..
And I thought it was Yahoo! that ruined my nice clean PacBell setup. :(

Ryan Dognaux

16-06-2004, 02:18

My account is included with my DSL package, so, while it's not free, I don't pay extra for the 2GB.

Same here :) I woke up this morning, and to my surprise my e-mail account had 2.0 GB of storage space. That's always a good surprise :]

Billfred

16-06-2004, 10:15

I would go GMail (I piddled with it a bit), but then there's the fact that I have my BillfredIndustries.com address. I can't figure out an easy way to send stuff from my BI account and receive it on GMail. Then it gets even hairier from there when I have to reply!

If anyone can figure out a way to do that, let me know.

Ryan M.

16-06-2004, 12:38

Eugenia Gabrielov

16-06-2004, 14:07

Having just switched from Yahoo to gmail like...an hour ago, I may post an opinion. The interface on Gmail is fabulous. As mentioned, the speed is a huge advantage, because I love sending/recieving large files, and storing my emails. The chat-based email sort system is really handy: it is advantageous to see all the previous posts on one subject so you don't have to go looking for them. It's really convenient to get in to: it won't ask for a password for about 2 weeks, and since I'm the primary user if this computer, and the only gmailer in the family, I'm fond of it.

If you can get an invitation, and aren't afraid to switch all your account stuff, I would definitly recommend Gmail.

Katie Reynolds

16-06-2004, 16:20

I haven't tried G-Mail at all yet, but with Yahoo's new 100 MB upgrade, I noticed there are no different fonts, colors, smilies, etc. ... Hopefully that's temporary (or just my computer being dumb) because I'm definitely not fond of that. :mad:

Bharat Nain

16-06-2004, 21:49

I have to give it to Gmail. It's simply amazing. I have used Yahoo for almost 3 years now, and it seems nothing in front of Gmail. I love the way it works. But Yahoo increasing free space to 100 MB is not bad either. I can store quite a bit of information on there too:)

Greg Ross

23-06-2004, 18:33

My sub-accounts get 100 MB, and not 1GB. Wishful thinking, I guess.

And FYI, the thumbs down icon (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/images/icons/icon13.gif)on the previous post was inadvertent. I intended no icon, but must have accidentally clicked the thumbs down on my way to "Preview Post". I apologize if anyone thought I was giving the thumbs down to Gmail. Unfortunately, I didn't notice it in time to edit the message.

I got an invitation from Kyle Gilbert the other day, and I agree that the interface is nice. Especially nice is having the keyboard shortcuts.

Sam Oldak

23-06-2004, 22:56

Just a thought, maybe gmail is so much faster beecause it has not gone public yet. Yahoo has so many more users using it, that any normal server would slow down a little.

Joe Ross

24-06-2004, 10:46

Yahoo! FINALLY got rid of the super annoying Flash ::shudder:: advertisements. (So annoying, that I've been fighting, for a couple months, to figure out a way to banish, once and for all, Flash player from my computer.)

You won't get rid of flash for as long as Andy likes Homestar Runner ;)

You could install the Mozilla suite, or Firefox and add the FlashBlock extension, though. http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

Yan Wang

24-06-2004, 10:48

Hotmail to follow in Yahoo!'s footsteps:

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5245523.html

vamfun

29-05-2009, 15:08

One point that favors Yahoo for me is it doesnt block " .lib " files

We have been having trouble with gmail blocking our Vex mplab zip files. I finally figured out that the

.lib

was the offending file. Grrr.. costs us a lot of lost code when we needed it at a competition.

vivek16

29-05-2009, 15:29

Gack! Zombie thread! Please don't resurrect old threads.

-vivek

Dan Petrovic

30-05-2009, 00:55

I haven't deleted a single message in my gmail mailbox since March 4th, 2007.

I am using 5% of the space gmail gives me with almost 5000 messages.

Michelle Celio

30-05-2009, 07:46

I haven't deleted a single message in my gmail mailbox since March 4th, 2007.

I am using 5% of the space gmail gives me with almost 5000 messages.
I joined August, 19 2006

Since then I've received 23,657 emails.

And according to Gmail:
You are currently using 2939 MB (40%) of your 7332 MB.

:rolleyes:

Gack! Zombie thread! Please don't resurrect old threads.

-vivek

But but...zombie threads can be tons of fun :)

ATannahill

30-05-2009, 10:36

I have both Gmail and Yahoo. I mainly use Gmail because it is more userfriendly and comes with Google Maps, Google Docs, iGoogle and much more. Also, I sometimes sends files between my two accounts and, because Gmail supports up to 20mb attachments, it will send from Gmail but Yahoo will not take it.

Chief Pride

30-05-2009, 16:29

Just a thought, maybe gmail is so much faster beecause it has not gone public yet. Yahoo has so many more users using it, that any normal server would slow down a little.

Apparently not!

Burmeister #279

31-05-2009, 00:56

*sees original post date... eyes pop out*

okay, so now that i'm typing blind and with one hand due to an unfortunate gravity related incident, i'd like to say i'm selling my meager portion of the internet to google (figuratively of course) due to one of their newest projects, WAVE. wave has not been released yet, however the video about it at wave.google.com made my cry tears of win. the video is 1 hour and 20 minutes long but it is .UH. .MAY. .ZING. i'm definately using it when it comes out later this year. check it out!!

oh yeah, gmail ftw.

Molten

02-06-2009, 04:10

Gack! Zombie thread! Please don't resurrect old threads.

-vivek

But but...zombie threads can be tons of fun :)

Aim for the head:ahh: It's the only way to kill a zombie.

Chris is me

02-06-2009, 10:07

I've personally only used Gmail, as just being able to archive my mail has proven invaluable. My brother has tried both Google and Yahoo, and he prefers Gmail's interface over Yahoo's infinite size limit.