Gmail

Gmail is a free e-mail service that is run by Google. It can be accessed on the web, by POP3, or by IMAP. Some competitors to Gmail are Yahoo! Mail, Outlook (Formerly Hotmail), and Inbox.Com.

Gmail

Type of site	Webmail
Available in	105 languages
Owner	Google
Created by	Paul Buchheit
URL	workspace.google.com/products/gmail/
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Required
Users	1.5 billion (October 2019)[1]
Launched	April 1, 2004; 21 years ago (2004-04-01)
Current status	Active
Content license	Proprietary
Written in	Java, C++ (back-end), JavaScript (UI)[2]

Google Apps

Google Apps is a service from Google that was created in February 2006 as Gmail for your domain. It is to allow system administrators of a company or organisation to create email accounts for their own domain.

Trademark issues

In the United Kingdom (UK), the trademark "Gmail" was owned by another company before Gmail by Google was started. Thus, the United Kingdom uses a domain of "googlemail.com" for their users, and the logo has the words of "Google Mail" instead of the normal "Gmail".

In September 2009 Google began to change the branding of UK accounts back to Gmail following the resolution of the trademark dispute.^[3]