Google is touting its growing influence in the area of college e-mail systems. To celebrate the start of a new academic year, the company unveiled a Web site that makes it clear just how widespread its presence is in higher education.
The site features a map that looks like a big game of Risk in which Google owns all the pieces. It shows the 145 colleges that have signed up to have Google Apps Education Edition as their official campus e-mail service.
The Official Google Blog announced the site in honor of the now five million students who have “gone Google” and agreed to use the platform. According to the blog, the number of students who have registered for the service has risen by 400 percent since last year.
As for Google’s major competition, Microsoft’s Live@edu, a spokeswoman for that company would not specify how many college accounts it has.
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2 Responses to Google Touts Big Gains In Campus E-Mail Business
keithnfa - September 10, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Interesting, wide growth.
emmadw - September 15, 2009 at 9:45 am
But that map keeps hopping back to Alaska … really hard when you’re trying to look at distribution in Europe.