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Eric Schmidt uses Yahoo for emails

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This submission is approaching reddit [pics]-level posts. There's nothing to discuss here and it isn't even particularly funny.

Yahoo! Mail has been around since 1997; people had lives before Google.

On a related note, I too was one of those people who had lives before Google, and maintained a Yahoo mail account for over 10 years now. Until recently when Yahoo locked me out of my account for no good reason.

people had lives before Google?

This is going to come as a shock, sit down if you can: people had lives before the Internet.

Well, the page hasn't been updated since October of 2004, a few months after Gmail was opened into Beta (if Firefox's "Last Modified" details are accurate). I'm nearly certain more accurate email details are out there.

Page isn't updated: RIGHT Page represents Eric Schmidt as on today: RIGHT AGAIN! Doesnt make CEO of Google look good man...

Quick! Someone use Yahoo mail's broken password recovery system to break in!

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Was using tinyurl really necessary?

This is not Twitter; cut that shit out.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ericschmidt.com/

..the site has not been updated since 7 years. what a "great" news submission

Realize of course that most of America doesn't use Gmail. +1 to Eric for keeping it real.

Why could that be? IMHO, Gmail is superior to Yahoo email in almost every way.

Because Yahoo email / Hotmail is good enough for the average user?

But Yahoo sure has the early mover advantage over Gmail... It takes more than good features to make people switch.. people who are methodox and orthodox for Yahoo!!!!

1. The email names aren't transferable

2. The email archives aren't transferable

3. Halo effect from using Yahoo or MSN

4. The other email services works fine for most users

etc.

Maybe its not him? I doubt the CEO of Google would have his email up there for all to see and contact him.

It certainly looks like him, but who knows? I doubt a technology CEO would release such a terrible, unfinished-looking site voluntarily.

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