Gmail vs. Hotmail vs Yahoo

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch recently wrote a detailed review of Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail. Being a Google junky, I prefer anything Google and love the Gmail usability and tagging features but his article is a good read nevertheless.

The most amazing thing is the growth of Gmail users (51 million email accounts) is such a short period of time. It is now a legitimate competitor against Yahoo and Hotmail. With this new competition, Yahoo and Hotmail definitely needed to make changes to their system. Both now offer considerably more email storage space than before and recently got big make-overs. They even partnered together to allow MSN users and Yahoo chat users to communicate with each other.

But I still believe Yahoo and Hotmail are still (in my view) inferior in speed, usability and features than Gmail and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

Google Bombs Defused (for now ...)

In a recent post on Google's blog, they discussed an upgrade to their algorithm to minimize Google bombs. To those of you unfamiliar of Google bombs. Basically a Google bomb is an attempt by a large number of webmasters to influence the search rankings for a certain term.

The most talked about Google bomb to date is where thousands of website masters linked the keywords "miserable failure" up to George Bush. Finally, after two years the Bush Google bomb was recently defused in January. I am sure this is not the end of Google Bombs and just a temporary setback for webmasters interested in manipulating Google search results. I'll keep you posted in future postings on any other humorous/notable Google Bombs.