Would you believe that in 1998, Google offered to sell its platform to Yahoo for just $1 million? Of course, Yahoo didn’t see the prospect and passed the opportunity. If only they knew Google was going to be the most visited platform of the twenty-first century. Fast-forward to the century we now live in, and Google is not only beating Yahoo on the search engine fronts, but its emailing service (Gmail) has also surpassed that of Yahoo. So much so that it is now accurate to say that Google’s Gmail is better than Yahoo’s Yahoo Mail. But Yahoo Mail isn't the only email provider Google is brushing aside. Names like Hotmail, Outlook, iCloud Mail, AOL, GMX, Yandex, amongst several others, are also losing ground on Gmail. In fact, in a recent publication by CNBC, it was revealed that Google’s Gmail is the dominant online email service with 1.5 billion global active users. But what exactly makes Google’s Gmail better than the rest? Let’s find out!