What’s difference between Gmail and Google Apps?

Gmail is the world most reliable, powerful, yet easy to use email management system on the planet.

On April Fool Day of 2004, Google released the beta version of Gmail. Gmail was released as “invitation only” and is now available to anyone. Gmail is much more than an email management system. Through your Google email account, you also have the ability to create web based shared calendars, shared documents, shared spreadsheets and more. Each Gmail account comes with contact management, IMAP, POP download, email forwarding and close to perfect spam filtering.

Google Apps was released four years later in April of 2008. Designed for both commercial and non-commercial use. The biggest difference between Gmail and Google Apps is your email address. Google Apps users are able to use their own domain name as part of their email address (username@your-domain.com). Standard Gmail account users have an email address of username@gmail.com. Both are free, however Google Apps users are able to increase the size of your email accounts by upgrading to a Google Apps Business account.

If you don’t already have a Google Apps account, then get one! There is no reason why everyone should not have their own domain name and thus a Google Apps account. If you do not yet have you’re own domain name, then stop here and go register your domain name right now. We highly recommend regiSTAR.com since they provide all their domain name registration customers with free Google Apps accounts.

If you’re familiar with web based email systems like Yahoo mail, Hotmail, or MSN, then you’ll feel right at home with Gmail but the differences stop there.

Let’s face it. Google is the most popular company on the Internet. So popular in fact that not being a part of their winning team strips you from some of the most useful applications online. One such application is Google Analytics. Google Anaylitcs allows web site owners to track visitors to their site and much more. In order to use Google Analytics or any other Google service, you need to have at least a standard Gmail account.

Look, no other email system on the planet compares to Gmail. It’s a fact and if anyone contests it, then they are simply lying or just haven’t used Gmail before. No other email system is more reliable, spam free and allows you to be more productive. Nothing compares and it’s free. If you already have a domain name but are not using Google Apps, then consider using our quick and easy installation service.

Here is a link to Google’s Top 10 Reasons for using Gmail. We couldn’t have put it better!