Difference Between Gmail and Yahoo

Yahoo Mail vs Gmail

There are many sites that provide free email. Among the biggest are Yahoo mail and Gmail (also known as Google Mail). If you are considering which one to use, you should first consider what other services you use as this saves you from making other accounts. Google is a rather big company that owns a lot of other sites. Your Gmail account can be used on YouTube, Picasa, Google Docs, and many others while your Yahoo mail account can be used with Flickr,del.icio.us, Yahoo Messenger, and many others as well. Of course, having accounts on both Yahoo and Google solves this problem easily.On the actual web GUI, the two have very different approaches. Yahoo crams in as much information as possible into the welcome page. It would contain news, recent updates from social networking sites, and even trending topics. On the other hand, Gmail goes for the simple approach. It goes straight to your inbox and has very minimal clutter. Another critical function is in scanning spam. In this area, it seems that Google has the better filter as Yahoo mail tends to miss some spam or wrongly sends a legitimate email to the spam folder.Another difference between Yahoo Mail and Gmail is in what you get for free and what you don’t, namely, POP access and email forwarding. Email forwarding is quite self-explanatory as it simply forwards the emails it receives to an email address that you’ve indicated. POP is a protocol that lets you use a different email client to retrieve and send your emails; popular clients include Outlook and Thunderbird. You get both for free in Gmail but you need to subscribe to Yahoo Mail Plus, a paid upgrade to Yahoo Mail, to get them. If you do not want to pay for these services, then Gmail is the only choice for you.

Being the older of the two email services, it is understandable why Yahoo has more users than Gmail. But with the simple interface and excellent complimentary services, Gmail is quickly gaining ground.

Summary:

1.Gmail and Yahoo mail have different related services.
2.Yahoo mail home screen shows more than emails while Gmail focuses on emails only.
3.Gmail is better at screening spam than Yahoo mail.
4.Gmail offers POP access for free while Yahoo mail provides the same for a fee.
5.Gmail offers email forwarding for free while Yahoo mail provides the service for a fee.

Ymail is product of yahoo! and Gmail is product of Google, here are some differences I observed between these two highly competitive mail services. Lets get started!!1. In Gmail you have an option of chat which is absent in Ymail. Don’t consider the yahoo messenger or gtalk for a while, as they are not a part of the mail system. Gmail has coupled a new voice and video chat system with it and a unique ‘send SMS via mail’concept has been evolved by the Google engineers!! I have to say it’s quite innovative. It offers you some 50 credits and you simply have to type the mobile no. against a column along with choosing the country of his/her residence. This is useful especially when someone abruptly leaves a chat and you desperately want to convey some important message or emotions..

2. Gmail is considered to be more secure than Ymail because it has much smaller session expiry time than Ymail. It is also easy to save yourself from phishing attacks on Gmail by checking the sender’s actual email address by choosing an option ‘View Original’.

3. Gmail is free from picture ads, though there are few advertisements in the form of a single line above the inbox while Ymail has huge picture ads on the sides and even on the page where you login.

4. Ymail has the option of opening a no. of tabs at the same time from a long time while Gmail has recently incorporated that feature in it, and their tabs are opened in smaller size while you can see the rest of inbox/sent/spam, it is useful especially when you are lazy being copying an email address using Ctrl+C and just want to view it from a folder inside Gmail while you type another mail. Along with that Gmail has recently made 3 tabs called ‘primary’, ‘social’ and ‘promotions’ which automatically judges the type of mail and sends it appropriately in either of these or else spam. Even the spam system of Gmail is more sophisticated and powerful than Ymail.

5. One problem with Gmail is that if you create your own folder say ‘facebook’ and you start cutting your facebook mails from your inbox and pasting it into folder ‘facebook’, then the next time a facebook mail arrives you natural instinct will say that it should land in ‘facebook’ folder but you will be shocked that gmail doesn’t understand that minor thing. But Ymail seems pretty smart here. Try it and you will know it better.Well i have account on both and enjoy the benefits of both the mails as that compensates the limitations of each other!!