Survey: Most Prefer Yahoo!

[RadioJoe]

While this is not a scientific poll, I found this interesting.

In a recent Polldaddy survey - when asked "Which is your preferred E-Mail Service provider ?" most prefer Yahoo! over other web based online e-mail accounts.

Hotmail 14%
Yahoo 53%
Gmail 25%
AOL 1%
Other 8%

Total Votes: 7,930
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Overall, I like the simplicity of Gmail. Frequently, I have used the documents feature in Gmail. As for Yahoo!, I really like the 'Notepad' feature. Hotmail/Live.com always seemed bloated and slow.

I have accounts with Hotmail, Live.com, Yahoo!, Gmail, GMX. With some services I have multiple accounts.

What do use and why?

 

[noobvious]

I use Yahoo, mainly out of familiarity. I went about 5 years without computer access, but before that I had a Yahoo account. So when I rejoined civilization about a year and a half ago, I went with what I already knew.

 

[JordanJP]

for me Gmail is King !

 

[NinaJay]

I signed up to hotmail about 14 years ago. It was the 'one to use' back then. I signed up for a yahoo account about 4 years ago. Used it once and I couldn't even tell you what it is now.

 

[pezzonovante]

Hotmail FTW

 

[macgyver2]

I use a live.com account cause it's part of my old web site that I have had for 3 years and don't use.

 

[Capt.Jack Sparrow]

I like Gmail & Live because it allows POP3 .. We have to pay Yahoo to configure with Outlook (i think)

 

[stormy13]

One reason for Yahoo being as high as it is, how many ISP's are in a licensing agreement with Yahoo for their mail and other services (AT&T, Rogers Cable, etc)? With most people that use a computer not knowing much more than where the power button is, it's no surprise that they would use Yahoo just because it "comes" with the internet account.

 

[Joan Archer]

A lot depends on what I'm doing, newsgroup replies are usually Hotmail, newsletters and some other things are gmail, forums are my secondary email account, there are some you can't sign up to with either Hotmail or gmail.

I do have a Yahoo account but don't use it, it's one I had to set up when finding my first cross stitch sites through Yahoo Groups.
And of course when you go with BT they think you are going to be BT/Yahoo.

 

[CarlTR6]

I began using Hotmail years ago and I ahve never changed. I don't use it frequently, though. I mainly use it to avoid spam to my main account.

 

[V3xar]

I use Gmail, mainly because of the built in translator.

I get a lot of foreign language mails and can translate them with a single click.


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[DocBrown]

I use all the different email accounts for testing & comparison.

Hotmail & Live
Yahoo
Gmail
AOL
Cable Company's issued email address

I use different ones for personal, business, Forums, Junk & Spam, eBay & Paypal.
That way it keeps the emails sorted into categories, and does not over load just one account with too much unrelated stuff.


Your Friend in 7ime,

" Doc "

 

[myzr7]

live.com- hotmail I like the way it handles sending pictures of the kids to my mother.

 

[Lordbob75]

I have a hotmail account, live account, Yahoo account, and a GMail account.

I only use my GMail account. I HATE the way the other ones work.

~Lordbob

 

[TheAmazingCorey]

I'm all about the GMail. I got an account when it first went into beta and have had an account since. I do keep a yahoo account and a hotmail account just so I can use msn messenger and yahoo messenger. But for mail I use Gmail.

 

[valtonray]

hotmail for my primary email account. it's nice knowing i've had the same email since the 90's and longer than the majority have had internet and it's still not filled with spam.

 

[NinaJay]

hotmail for my primary email account. it's nice knowing i've had the same email since the 90's and longer than the majority have had internet and it's still not filled with spam.

+1

 

[tuckeratlarge]

I use Gmail now as my only mail client. I have Hotmail, Yahoo and my own domain email addresses plus the one provided to me by Virgin (when they migrate ntlworld addresses to gmail I might use it). I aggregate them all to my Gmail.

Hotmail was registered in 2000 and because it was a bit crap then I never used the web-ui, still don't even though it's better now. Yahoo was only because I had "geocities" and latterly "Flickr" accounts and I got the email thrown in.

I used to use email clients, Outlook Express->Outlook->Incredimail->Outlook and then Thunderbird. But due to a balls up whilst changing computers I figured I'd use Gmail until I got sorted out with Thunderbird again. However I never bothered.

Anything important gets backed up to my Hotmail account - just in case.

To me 'cloud' email is easier to look at from anywhere in the world. I can access all my accounts from anywhere, it's just easier to remember one accounts details.

 

[sambalayne]

if i had to use any of those i would use yahoo. but thankfully i dont. i have a @idolizingreason.com email address

 

[Fantail]

Had to say Gmail. Use it with live mail, works ok and I have a few calendars.

What I didn't like was setting imap with live from a cpanel host. I guess it's not to bad once you figgure out exactly which folder/options to use.