How Google And Gmail Dominated Consumer Email
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- čas přidán 25. 10. 2019
- When Gmail was released to the public on April 1, 2004, many people thought it was a prank. Gmail offered one gigabyte of storage and robust email search. These features, among others, have helped to make Gmail the most used email service in the world with 1.5 billion users.
Gmail has come a long way since its inception. It stands as the most dominant online email service with more than 1.5 billion global active users. It has gone from a small experiment to an important piece of Google's G Suite lineup. But the road to the top hasn't been without a few bumps, including a rocky start.
By the time Google started working on the service in 1999, Yahoo Mail already had 12 million active users and Microsoft's Hotmail had about 30 million.
Paul Buchheit, who was employee No. 23 at Google, fought for the online email service, but executives didn't understand how a search company could benefit from online email. Some executives pushed back at the time, according to multiple reports. Buchheit created the service as a "20%" project, which is an informal program Google has sometimes offered employees to work on projects of their choosing.
When Gmail actually launched, people thought it was a joke -- literally. Becaase it was announced on April Fool's Day 2004, people wondered whether the company was pulling one over them. But once users realized it was real, it became one of a number of free email services alongside Microsoft's Hotmail and Yahoo Mail, which were some of the first to introduce web-based email in the 1990s.
Monetizing Gmail has been a point of contention within the company. Some people argued that in order for Gmail to have the most reach, it needed to be supported by advertising, rather than user subscription fees. The ad model won out but, even before it launched to the general public in 2007, Google got heat for scanning Gmail emails and using the contents for targeted advertising.
The company drew scrutiny again in 2018 after Google admitted to allowing app developers scan Gmail accounts for ad targeting. It would come up again through 2019 as Congress grilled Google alongside other tech companies over privacy. Over the summer, the company admitted to keeping a list of items users purchase using Gmail.
Even though the email service didn't start doing exceedingly well compared to competition until 2012, it continues to innovate. The company still aggressively targets both consumer and enterprise users. It also continues to add innovative new features such as Smart Compose, which uses artificial intelligence to predict responses.
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How Google And Gmail Dominated Consumer Email
Google is just really good at removing spam.
Exactly
Because its them lol
They are so good that even my youtube notifications go into my spam
I agree. Outlook is absolutely terrible 😠
@@maxinef6654 Before I switched my personal email to Outlook years ago, I used to get about 5,000 spams a day. now I get like 1,000.
Google made it mandatory to have a Gmail account to sign into CZcams. Game changer...
When was this? I don't have a Gmail account . . .
L'aviateur de TRPG, most likely the time Google tried to be Facebook with their G+ social media system, but they've failed miserably. Before and after that (I came to Gmail as soon as it was widely available and I don't think Google even owned YT back then) Gmail wasn't required on a YT account.
Wrong. You don't need a Gmail account for YT, you just need a Google Account.
I have a MS account using my Gmail, but I don't have a Hotmail account.
You need a Google account, not a Gmail account. You can use any email.
Locutus I just saw your comment
Im addicted to these videos. Informative, not too long, not too serious, no discussion panels and interviews. Good for y'all CNBC.
I must admit I binge watching CNBC videos lately lol... They really hardworking churning videos after videos
Gmail organized my email from important to ads and social media.
Yeah, that's great. Now if I could only get it to auto-organize other emails.
@@yaotly1 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Is this Kevin Nguyen?
@@letmelick great arguments.
Yahoo, the company that lost it all.
Been binging CNBC and Business Insider. It's like I have an addiction
And it's good production value and it's free 😝
@@DarkChasmGamers Yep! Great themes and actual journalism
Business insider is trash
Me too. But for me cnbc is better than insider. Insider is like quantity over quality.
@@baotran9572 teehee ur edgi
We all must admit Google made our life easier and comfortable.
Yes, but at what cost down the road? Freedom of Speech is under attack at CZcams, and the PC police are draconian in their judgements of what is proper etiquette for peoples channels.
Look up Big Brother for reference material.
@@CaseyFinSF In terms of free speech, Google is much better than Microsoft or Facebook, not great but still better
@@jayfawn8478 People can either complain or start paying for the services they use
People trust Google more than many other companies or institutions.
@@CaseyFinSF you sound like a crackpot
CNBC REALIZING THEIR VIDEOS ON THE INTERNET ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN ACTUAL TV
Alex Diaz (please DON'T SHOUT!), it seems Comcast is convinced CNBC can have a better image on YT than on cable / satellite and IT SHOWS.
syxepop I meant to capitalize CNBC and forgot to disable it. Didn’t want to retype it so I just left it as is haha
Alex Diaz, I KNEW IT!!! (yeah)
these videos are way too addicting
vGuy they’re so informative
Yes very much
@@MrWarrenRB uP
Yessssss
CNBC really upping their CZcams game.
Why is this comment not upping its game? Repeating itself on every video 😂
but still doing the lame "webcam conference" with a shot of a laptop showing several short words of a 1 minute chat
Yarp Yarp, I do believe they frame that only when the interviews are done through services like MS Skype (it still looks slightly choppier than the regular camera look).
@@ruchikachandak4766 so true haha
She just called him “hot male”... 😨
:D
😂😂😂
😂
savage
Lol maybe he is
Remember when your storage increased every second in Gmail. That was amazing.
The first min reminded me of the mac vs PC ads that Apple used to air.
"Hi, I'm a mac"
"And I'm a PC....."
Me too. With Justin Long.
Together we are a Mapc
That was the goal...
I remember how frustrating not being able to delete messages was.
1267 emails unread in my gmailbox.. it should figure out that I never intend to read them
I've never seen sign in with amazon in my life
You want to be part of a rainforest?
Amazon.com
It doesn't exist that's why
IMDb and Goodreads:)
@@ooow333 Then again, they are Amazon owned services. But you're right.
Now they just need to stop forwarding my important emails to Promotions folder.
that doesnt happen to me
I have been using Gmail since it released. One thing I like this is that Google has always improving it and it is the most easy web mail to send email.
I think what made gmail so popular is just the integration with other google services. I remember I had a hotmail email and started using google docs to edit documents in realtime with other users. I ended up having 2 emails but slowly merged over to gmail because I was using it for all these services + email and hotmail was just an email.
I'm proud to say I created my gmail account 1 week after it was launched :-) feels good to be able to say I was an early adopter :-)
In case you are wondering if you just watched a 15 minutes advertisement of Google:
Yes, you did.
Just getting addicted to these kinda videos from CNBC.. just too good .. keep it up CNBC.
I was a sophomore in high school in March 2005 when a friend of mine whose dad worked at Google sent me an invitation for Gmail. Only like 3 of us in school had it but our teachers would email us homework. And we would email each other. I still use this gmail today and it fun to look up at the photos and other things we would share back in high school.
Of all the things here, the congressman’s name caught my attention “Mr.Goodlatte” 😂
FarruFR I saw that too
Gmail is a success, Google now needs to focus on improving search results on Google. Relevance and credibility of the results.
oh god
Have you tried other search engines. There relevant results are very bad
Exactly, google microsoft computer support and those damn Indian scammers websites pop up first... they've infiltrated google and somehow make it to the top of the search.
Nishith Joshi you are correct google is still by far the best but google used to be telepathic in finding what you want now it often feels like it only shows me certain sites or it doesnt understand what im asking for.
@@Nishith8 like ecosia?
this video is a great reminder that I haven't cleaned my box in ages
The new videos you guys are making are grrr great, keep it up.
I was one of the first gmail users, I’ve never looked back
Same
Yeah, I remember when you had to have an invitation to use the beta...gosh, I'm old.
Exactly
So u have a @googlemail adress ?
@@chadtrollbanger5589 No. It was rebranded to Gmail before leaving beta
So people with a ...@googlemail.com are either Googlers or people that created their address during the beta
Remember when push notifications for emails wasn't a thing and you actively had to check your inbox regularly?
The first thing I do is turn off email push and all notifications.
I like to check my email manually not get dinged every five seconds by Spam.
My company has just migrated to Gsuite and it's awesome. It feels like I can access my work desktop whenever and wherever I want through my android device. Very convenient especially at those times you're out of office.
Final 2 minuts of video really worthy . Quality documentary in the end
I was one of the guys who brought a Gmail invite in the very early days, great $10 spend. But not being able to delete at the start was a real problem, as I get a lot of newsletters.
0:32 no watch lmao
I've been using Gmail/Google Drive/Google Business Suite for ages and I can't imagine replacing it for anything since there isn't anything that comes even close to its quality and functionality.
I remember you needed an invite to open up a gmail. Good times.
It's all thanks to the Android platform. If Android wasn’t my operating system than I might not have a Google Account. Android operating system gives Google the monopoly over search and other Google account based business. Btw I am not at all complaining about Google’s monopoly. Google has done a fantastic job of making information easier to collect and share.
You need to have a gmail account to use the playstore and other services on android... that's why it has so many users...
No. You need a Google Account, which can be created using a phone number (which is a bad idea) and an existing email address.
Google account can be tied with yahoo or hotmail. Not neccessarily gmail
No need of that in iPhone tho
My company works with G suite. It was odd at first but now I will never change it for any. All just work and is easy to use.
If you work in a business environment and you need to share data, documents or work in shared files, Google is the king
Agreed. G suite is amazing for business. We use it to share document files.
This proves what many people already know. Vast majority of people don’t care about their data privacy as long as they can get a good “free” product. In other words, they happily buy the product with their data.
I have a Gmail and Outlook account. Best of both worlds.
0:31 she doesnt even have a watch dammit
She does actually, but it's under her shirt sleeve! (if you look closely). You can also see it at 0:36.
Really love the cnbc channel... so much information to learn from
CNBC don't have the balls to change the roles of Gmail and Hotmail.....wait oh yes they don't have them....😂😂
@paula I am pretty sure you got what I wanted to convey.
Tbf, Outlook is better for work. And those hundred millions of users are probably employees from corporations.
But outside work, I use Gmail..
And college!
I use both
*Every beginning has an END*
*Every High has a Low*
So does Google and Gmail.
these tech companies nowadays are really different from the past because of data
tommy aronson 🔥 🔥
Outlook is dope.
Gmail certainly has a g-spot.
Lol flexing with my outlook
@GamingTV if your grandma is a moron, im sure you're a bigger one.
gamer 45 😂😂😂😂😂😂
GamingTV Moronism is genetically passed down
The guy deleted his post, it just happens that I took a screenshot to capture the glorious fail.
photos.app.goo.gl/KvbnwJatwSK84sTp9
2:08 Susan Wojcicki CEO of youtube hidden in the bottom left corner.
12:45 I love the monopoly man in the background, everytime this clip shows up.
Corporate email uses outlook especially big companies. Ordinary users uses gmail because of google services and youtube to sign-in.
Google "Alphabet" is an advertising company. I am not quite sure why anyone would trust their important information with them.
Microsoft on the other hand is a business company, protecting privacy is their business.
I was in the Gmail Beta invite, and I never Looked back! Anyone remember Google 🌊?.. pepperidge Farm remembers!
i'm using gmail since september 2th, 2004 and i've also remember that to sent lots of invitation to my friends
I miss the peppridge farm meme... Those days was awesome
My fellow forumers invited me. I liked it a lot. I use mine as a secondary email.
I have multiple Gmail accounts myself.
I remember avoiding Gmail until it got past the invite stage. I didn't see the need to work at it like I would to get a scarce product.
I was searching for Headphones online,
and I was just surprised when Instagram started showing me some ads related to it!
I love Google Calendar for scheduling events but I use Spark for my email organization. I have used Gmail (of course!) before but after I saw the design and organization of Spark, I really liked it. Also, it can add my school’s email account (which uses Outlook)
Note: This just happened 2 years ago, so I’m unaware of the new updates for Gmail.
If anyone suggests any cool features that Gmail can do that Spark cannot, I will happily hear them! 😊
The only reason I have an Outlook is because my college uses them for our emails
"It wasn't quite clear how Google can benefit from an online email-service, when it was a search company."
Isn't that pretty much the case for EVERYTHING that google does?
To this day, pretty much the only thing they make actual money off is their search-service ads.
They money maker is User Data that they sell to Advertisers (Google Ads, etc)
I started with yahoo mail in 2004 then switched to gmail in 2008 due to the fact that I had excessive spam in my yahoo inbox
Reminds me of the old mac and pc ads.
I just love GOOGLE ❤ it's simply the best
Real Gs move in silence and never brag about their mail accounts
Wow, Gmail and Hotmail personified! Seriously, Gmail made it easy for us to send and keep track of our e-mails every time.
Without doubt CNBC is my favourite CZcams channel. So educative and informative
3:59 From: nOT the pOLICE
Subject: We have the drugs!
Lmao
The only reason I have Gmail is that Google forced me to get a Google account. End of story.
So what Email service would you have otherwise?
@@lopezlion3164 you will be surprised to find out how many of them out there and some of them older than Google itself.
@@maxant4285 Can you give us some good examples for people, whose use-case is registering at important websites with that e-mail (and not a secret encrypted communication)? That is, the password recovery has to be safe from attacks, it doesn't get deleted if you never log in via web interface, and doesn't force a spam filter on you, you are guaranteed never to lose the e-mail if the freemail company goes bankrupt (otherwise you won't ever recover your accounts), has a proper security... And other conditions that noone talks about.
I don't know, it's true that a financial incentive should make it more likely they'll take care of you, but the company doesn't seem that large or old, they "make no guarantees about the continual availability of all services", and as usually, if they decide to accuse you of breaking ANY arbitrary rules, which includes German laws, whatever would they be tomorrow, "the account can be blocked by Posteo without notice". There's also the implicit risk of forgetting to pay, e.g. if your circumstances of life change, and for whatever reason you won't manage to keep track of this invoice. Anyway, there are many other paid providers that are at least just as good in my opinion, but noone prioritizes what I mentioned above.
@@scscyou protonmail.
Am I the only one to notice at 12:34
Mr Good Latte 😂 man his parents must've love their latte so much
Excellent reporting, thanks
cause android, back in the day Microsofts Hotmail dominated when windows pc was the dominate platform
Hello, Im Gmail, may I read your mail please? Oh sorry I already have.
I'm using Gmail for many years, but I still login sometimes to my 1999 hotmail account, just out of nostalgia.
Fun fact: If you actually were one of the first thousand or so Gmail users, you actually got extra gigabytes, which is still carried on today with the current amount of space.
But how many gmail addresses are used just for spambot?
I love Google but I'm with team outlook.
@Invesigator 2 they need more diversity hire.
@Invesigator 2 That's literally the point of Google. That's what made their success. Personnalisation.
@Invesigator 2 hahahahahhaha you just show up how you don't know anything about it!!!
Same here.
Really innovative!
Google should give like some kind of badge for gmail beta testers like me. Been using gmail since 2005 where my friends was using yahoo. And even back then, gmail interface is so damn good. I still remember they have a live storage counting.
I got my Hotmail since MSN and that's a reason I still use it :)
Same :)
I basically have all the google apps on my iPhone I love them all- they make everything so simple and I feel like I can trust them with personal info. I even feel like switching to the Pixel phone that’s how much I like Google...
Truth
Hotmail did have keyword search at the time, they all did. I got gmail as a beta user. It was the message grouping that got me.
Google has a total monopoly in video sharing program with CZcams. There should be an anti-monopoly regulation. Somebody else needs to come up with a comparable product. Competition is always better.
Because everything uses gmail, that's why we use it.
I still use my Yahoo account 😬
Yahoo mail is my primary and Gmail is my secondary.
🤭
@tommy aronson - No it's not.
@tommy aronson I have no idea what I did to deserve that! Very uncalled for.
You're not aware about the leakage of Yahoo's mail passwords?
Gmail is playing a really smart long game. They're penetrating education & business sectors. For kids, using Google apps & accounts for learning familiarize them with Gmail. Many small business also use Gmail as their email platform, not to mention Google drive. These people will all be using Google services in the future.
Easy to use. Improving daily
Gmail is hot
I would check her inbox
Outlook is so much better in 2019
Professional use, yes. Private use tutanota.
Former yahoo user here, after trying gmail for a week, I switched to it quick.
I remember when I was using yahoo mail back in the early 2000s. I have to be mindful of the file size that I sent via email as it will quickly hit the storage limit and force me to pay the premium. Then gmail came along changes everything.
Yo, you sure she’s gmail cuz she looks like Hotmail to me
Hotmail FTW. Screw Gmail
Hotmail became outlook, i didn't knew that.
I love the Sign in with Google feature.
You've got mail!
Pids Me, surprisingly AOL recently discontinued saying that in their email greeting (I do use an AOL address for "junky subscriptions"). I still expecting them to say that, even into their Verizon-owned era...
😂 memories
I love Google.
I love GMail.
One thing to realize is that Bill Gates suggested to start charging for emails, about 1 cent per email, due to dominance of Hotmail - even though they offered pesky storage options by default, like 5-10MB vs Gmail's outstanding 1GB Option which was being offered FOR FREE. Google saved email communication to remain free.
I got my Google account in 2006 and ever since then Google has simplified my life. I can't thank Google enough. And then a couple of years later came Android and Maps and Google became the ultimate assistant even before 'Google Assistant' came out
Who cares where you hoard your spam?
22,869 message waiting.....
Jesus Christ.
I use to have 50,685 messages waiting - sometimes I appreciate the delete button
@@JourneyLi .....lul 😁
Fact: we use Gmail for Sign up and Login
imagine a google employee using outlook
So many ppl have it because Google requires that u have it, lool