Gmail - a Case Study
GMail-A Case Study
" Search is Number Two Online Activity - Email is Number One; 'Heck, Yeah,' Say Google Founders "
Headline of press release issued by Google on April 1, 2004 for GMail.
On 1st April 2004, Google announced a new web-based mail service called Gmail. During launch it announced a one GB of free storage for each user. It has many of new features for regular webmail users such as grouping of messages into one conversation. It was powered with Google's popular search technology to help users search within mails effectively.
Numbers of Email users are multiplying day by day. It is becoming the first mode of communication in business world. One may access his email in different ways. You can use any desktop email client such as Outlook or Eudora by connecting to your mail server. Again, use your full email address as your username. You can use POP3 or IMAP protocols, whichever you prefer. This is the preferred way of accessing Emails in corporate. The easiest way is to use webmail interface. This is preferred way of accessing emails for private use. Why Webmail?
Webmail allows you to send and receive email from any computer in the world which is connected to internet just by using your email address and password. Webmails are based on hypertext mark up language (HTML). There are various internet browsers available for different platform which can be used to access your messages or send and receive email. Emails are stored on the webmail provider's server. All the information of the webmails are stored on the webmail server itself until it is deleted by user or by provider.
Main differences between Webmail and Normal email client.
You can access your email using webmail from almost any computer which is connected to internet without configuring anything. While a normal desktop client need to be configured on every computer. Also it can be configured only on the computers which can connect to your Email provider's server.
Messages always stay on
" Search is Number Two Online Activity - Email is Number One; 'Heck, Yeah,' Say Google Founders "
Headline of press release issued by Google on April 1, 2004 for GMail.
On 1st April 2004, Google announced a new web-based mail service called Gmail. During launch it announced a one GB of free storage for each user. It has many of new features for regular webmail users such as grouping of messages into one conversation. It was powered with Google's popular search technology to help users search within mails effectively.
Numbers of Email users are multiplying day by day. It is becoming the first mode of communication in business world. One may access his email in different ways. You can use any desktop email client such as Outlook or Eudora by connecting to your mail server. Again, use your full email address as your username. You can use POP3 or IMAP protocols, whichever you prefer. This is the preferred way of accessing Emails in corporate. The easiest way is to use webmail interface. This is preferred way of accessing emails for private use. Why Webmail?
Webmail allows you to send and receive email from any computer in the world which is connected to internet just by using your email address and password. Webmails are based on hypertext mark up language (HTML). There are various internet browsers available for different platform which can be used to access your messages or send and receive email. Emails are stored on the webmail provider's server. All the information of the webmails are stored on the webmail server itself until it is deleted by user or by provider.
Main differences between Webmail and Normal email client.
You can access your email using webmail from almost any computer which is connected to internet without configuring anything. While a normal desktop client need to be configured on every computer. Also it can be configured only on the computers which can connect to your Email provider's server.
Messages always stay on