Benjamin Mako Hillhttp://mako.cc/May 11, 2014Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours

I wanted to find out too, how much of my email is in the hands of Google.

Whole email archive

I haven’t very carefully archived all my email since 2007. For what preceded 2007, I was using email through OVH’s POP server and I didn’t really care about archiving email, so that’s lost.

Emails I get each week (in red) including those going through Google (in blue)

Proportion of email going through Google for all emails (top) or for emails I replied to (bottom)

What’s interesting is that the proportion of Gmail is higher when I had the highest quantity of email.

However, the Gmail proportion might seem particularily low because most of it involves people active with the Free Software Foundation Europe. However, it’s still much higher than Karsten’s.

Personal email since 2011

Personal emails I get each week (in red) including those going through Google (in blue)

Proportion of personal email going through Google for all emails (top) or for emails I replied to (bottom)