Google updates Gmail with option to search inside attachments

Gmail's already powerful search functionality received a small but significantly useful update today. As reported by the Google Operating System blog, the popular webmail service can now search inside more file types attached to messages. Previously, if someone sent you...

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I haven't looked at the statistics, but I did notice that your Google count only included active users, whereas the Hotmail and Yahoo accounts included all unique accounts. If I had to guess I'd say Google is probably the biggest considering you need a Google account if you have android phones, and all of Google's services and software we rely on is synced by Google accounts.

P.S. - "However, puts the figure significantly lower at 289 million." looks like it's missing part of the sentence