Gmail No.1 E-mail Service in India

Gmail is the most popular e-mail service among Indians, followed closely by Yahoo Mail and a few other local players. According to ViziSense, an online audience measurement and analytics platform, Gmail had more than 18 million unique users in September as against 16.8 million users who used Yahoo Mail.

The popularity of Gmail has been steadily growing month-on-month, as indicated by the increasing number of unique users accessing the site, reasons the Vizisense web rankings report. During September, Gmail witnessed an increase of almost 3% in traffic compared to the previous month. Yahoo! Mail on the other hand, saw a decline of 8% whilst MSN Mail experienced an increase of nearly 6% in traffic since August.