Gmail Edges Hotmail as World's Top Email Service

2 Nov 2012  /  1:30pm  /  By Joy Hou & Wong Chung Wee

Google has finally overtaken Hotmail as the world's top email service. This is according to Internet analytics firm comScore who stated that for their October data, Gmail overtook Hotmail with 287.9 million unique worldwide visitors versus 286.2 million for Hotmail.