Gmail Has 350 MM Active Users

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/01/19/gmail-closes-in-on-hotmail-with-350-mm-active-users/

by FluidDjango • 15 years ago

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spiralganglion• 15 years ago

What does "MM" stand for? Million Monthly? I see this term everywhere, but cannot find a definition.

yk_42• 15 years ago

Million. It's an accounting abbreviation (sometimes).

Edit: It may come from Roman numerals. M = 1000.

kingkilr• 15 years ago

It's million, derived from M, Roman numeral for one thousand, one thousand one thousands is one million.

sparky• 15 years ago

I think it's more directly derived from the French 'Mille Mille ', or 'Thousand Thousand ', used in finance.

ansy• 15 years ago

I can't find any source for this, but it seems more likely MM is an abbreviation of "mille mille."

MM in Roman numerals would just be 2000. 1 million would be written as M with a bar over it. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals#Large_numbers

kristianp• 15 years ago

It irritates me, because it is at odds with other abbreviations, such as MB and k (for thousand). Surely a single M for million makes more sense? If it were roman numerals, MM stands for 2000.

ronnier• 15 years ago

I bothers the hell out of me every time I see it. It has exploded in use over the last year. That tells me people are using it sort of like a fashion trend, maybe to look intellectual? Same with "that said", "having said that", and "that being said". I enjoy looking at hn posts to see how fast I can spot some variation of "that said".

radiowave• 15 years ago

I'm puzzled by this. What's the acceptable alternative to "that said"? "Given the above"?

vm• 15 years ago

Survey:

-What are your favorite gmail features?

-What do you wish it had?

I access gmail at least 20x/day and I still stumble upon new features. Just learned about "OIB" yesterday.

nessus426• 15 years ago

I'm actually amazed at all the things that Gmail doesn't do after all these years:

- It doesn't let me search for untagged messages.

- It doesn't let me search or auto-tag by contact.

- It doesn't let me view messages in a fully-threaded, rather than flat-threaded format.

- It doesn't let me read my mail in a two-pane format, where headers are in on pane and the body of a message is in the other.

- There's a lot of functionality for which there is no keyboard shortcut. E.g., displaying inline images.

- The built-in GUI editor often doesn't do the right thing. I.e., it routinely just does weird stuff.

I guess, overall I'd say that Gmail is the worst web-based email client -- except for all the others.

Renaud• 15 years ago

- Dont' forget Gmail's inability to sort email by anything other than the received date. - You can't see -and therefore sort or search- by message size either, making cleaning up your account of large messages unnecessarily difficult to achieve. - Oh, and you can't add labels to a message you are composing so it can be found quickly again later (tedious workaround is to save your message, go to the draft box, open it, apply the labels you want, then send it...)

woogley• 15 years ago

Much of what you mention is for advanced users. What surprises me is that you can't sort your messages in Gmail.

wdewind• 15 years ago

>> - It doesn't let me search for untagged messages.

Yes it does (I think I must be misunderstanding what you mean by untagged)

>> - It doesn't let me search or auto-tag by contact.

Yes it does (you can search for a contact, and you can setup a filter to auto tag)

>> - It doesn't let me view messages in a fully-threaded, rather than flat-threaded format.

Why would you want this? Gmail's threading system has been widely copied and I've always thought of it as obviously superior.

>> - It doesn't let me read my mail in a two-pane format, where headers are in on pane and the body of a message is in the other.

Fair (though there is a google labs feature which lets you view message bodies without leaving your inbox by double clicking).

>> - There's a lot of functionality for which there is no keyboard shortcut. E.g., displaying inline images.

Do you really think there should be a shortcut for something like that? This example is especially worrying because it's a security feature.

>> - The built-in GUI editor often doesn't do the right thing. I.e., it routinely just does weird stuff.

I have no idea what you mean by this, but I'll assume you mean the rich text editor, and I haven't really experienced "weird stuff."

twodayslate• 15 years ago

Check out Google Labs. They recently added the two-pane feature.

RandallBrown2• 15 years ago

Users or accounts? I've personally made at least 5 or 6 gmail accounts and I bet there are plenty of people that have made more than that.

GMail is a great service.

snewman• 15 years ago

The headline says "active users" -- by which they might mean, users who have actively logged into the site in the last 30 days.

RandallBrown2• 15 years ago

but if I log in to 5 different email accounts I'm still just one user.

badclient• 15 years ago

Logged into 4 accounts right now.

rubergly2• 15 years ago

GMail really got 90 million new users since October? Why? Seems like an especially random time.

rubergly2• 15 years ago

Someone care to explain the downvote?

chaz• 15 years ago

Probably lifted by their push of Google+ to sit down and create an account. If you already had a Hotmail or Yahoo account, you may not have had a reason to create a Google account of any kind.

resnamen• 15 years ago

New phone activations, maybe? Android phones work a lot better when they're paired with Google account - you might not use GMail, but you might like the backup and calendar sync features.

Gmail Has 350 MM Active Users

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