There are seven google products that now boast of over 1 billion users each

At the Google/Alphabet earnings call yesterday, Google’s Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai announced that their Gmail service is their latest product to exceed one billion users. This

accolade follows six of their other products: Android, Chrome, Maps, Search, Youtube and the Google Play Store, each of which currently have a billion plus users each. Gmail quickly rose to

fame when it was launched in 2004 with its unconventional large mailbox offering, teamed with fast and effective searching. Despite the service being invite-only, the service saw very quick

adoption, in large part due to its clean interface and mail-first design. Since then the company has been working towards re-inventing the emailing experience to keep in tune with changing

times--their Inbox app available on Android and iOS delivers new ways to put key email-centric information up front and center within a user’s mobile experience. [embedded content] This

doesn’t detract from the fact that Google has had its fair share of lemons--Google Wave, Buzz and Plus are some of their launches that failed to see significant user adoption. Social media

competitor Facebook, with their claimed 1.5 billion users does surpass Google in this regard, and their acquired chat application Whatsapp has only just surpassed the 1 billion user mark.

Their photo-sharing Instagram is still playing catch up though. At the earnings call it was also revealed that the Mountain View based company stands as the most valuable US company,

surpassing Apple. Google’s parent company Alphabet  continues to make bets on fledgling technology projects that they refer to as “moonshots”, including their self driving cars project, and

drones and balloons that blanket landmasses with broadband Internet.