Gmail killer ready to strike by Zuzana Zelenakova

Reportedly, the Facebook email service is to be launched on Monday. One of the most recent facebook products just another in a row aimed at attacking Google´s dominant position. The project for the new email system has been officially known as project Titan, however, Gmail killer has been way more popular. First news about Facebook´s intentions to develop its own email service reached the public in February. Given the phenomenal success of the social networking site and its other launches experts predict another sensation that has a great potential to become one of Gmail´s strongest rivals. However, it would be a threat not only to Google, but also other ema! il services providers such as Hotmail or Yahoo!mail. currently, Hotmail has about 361 users, then there is Yahoo!mail with 273 million users and finally Gmail with 193 million. "And while it may only be in early stages come its launch Monday, there's a huge amount of potential here," Jason Kincaid from TechCrunch said. "Facebook has the world's most popular photos product, the most popular events product, and soon will have a very popular local deals product as well.“ And of course, the most important advantage Facebook has – “the social element”. Facebook knows who your friends are and how closely you're connected to them; it can probably do a pretty good job figuring out which personal emails you want to read most and prioritize them accordingly," explained Kincaid the obvious. Facebook having more than 500 million members becomes more and more potent threat for Google which covers about two-thirds of the search market. The social networking site! has also lured a rather significant numbers of Google employe! es. it i s estimated that about 10 percent of Facebook employees originally worked for Google. And that is why the search giant wages a “war for talent” these days that includes also 10 percent pay hike for all Google employees.

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