Welcome to Web Freebie Wednesday, the mid-week event featuring some of the best freebies of the web. Today's freebie is
Gmail, the free email service offered by Google. A lot of people already know about free email on the internet and they already know about Gmail in particular. So you may be wondering why Gmail was chosen as this week's freebie. The reason is that Gmail, unlike other free email services, offers what is called a POP3 email account. This means that you can use it with email client software, such as Microsoft Outlook. Of course, since you would have to pay for Microsoft Outlook, (it's included when you buy Micrsoft Office), this blog would never suggest that you use it. Visit this blog again for the next Web Freebie Wednesday for an awesome free alternative to Microsoft Outlook.
While free email has become the norm for the internet, it should not be under-appreciated. It comes with free hosting to store email files and attachments, which the major providers could charge for, but thankfully they don't. Like most free services offered online, free email is supported by advertising. In my oppinion,
Gmail is the best free email available. But for those of you who want to avoid letting Google take over the world, the two major competitors for free email are
Yahoo! mail and
MSN Hotmail.
PS. Sorry this post is a day late.
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