Is email important to Google, Microsoft and Yahoo?

The three webmail services that these companies are offering are free but one of the "gateways" is extremely important for all of their "money printing machines".
Access rate
To try to figure out the importance of email to these companies, let's see how often these domains are accessed by users.
And as a result: Gmail accounted for 23% of total Google.com site traffic; Hotmail accounted for 39% of access to Live.com (Yahoo) and Yahoo Mail accounted for 20% of Yahoo.com.
But if you look at these rates, we will not see the importance of them, but knowing they are occupying the highest positions in bringing access to all three carriers and sending users to the their other service.
Imagine how Google, Yahoo will look if the user does not use email.
Number of users
Again, we have to resort to estimating that neither Google, Yahoo nor Microsoft have ever had official numbers on the number of users actually using their webmail services.
Based on Google Doubleclick Ad Planner statistics - a tool that tracks and calculates traffic for many websites around the world, Yahoo Mail currently has about 340 million users and Hotmail has about 450 million. Unfortunately, we do not know how many Gmail users are using this tool, which automatically suppresses tracking of some Google services.
However, it is almost certainly that Gmail is occupying the third of the free email services in the world. Some web experts estimate Gmail has about 200 million users and that number is growing fast. This data is based on the "unique IP" filter that each IP can "host" a lot of users on it.
And email can not die yet
Strangely enough, in just a few years, people have declared "Dead Email" several times. In fact, we still have to depend on it more than most people think and more importantly, the world has no alternative.
Google knows this. Microsoft knows this. Yahoo knows this: Their email service is still extremely important because it's a "gold mine" for statistics, as the foundation for them to continue to develop new products revolving around, is The "pump" of access to other services or even "heavy artillery" for them to attack and "out", put pressure on other competitors in the market.
If one of the three companies loses email service, it will be a real disaster because hundreds of millions of users will massively drop out and reach out to other competitors.
Remember, if anybody claims that "Email is dead" then it is not working for Google, Microsoft, Yahoo or even "know nothing" about IT.
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