It took a while for me to log onto www.google.com. That's the part I don't understand. An e-mail is needed to log onto www.google.com, but gmail isn't needed. Any other sort of e-mail could be used instead of gmail. Such a thing is never possible with any other competing version of www.google.com. I never understood why, but I won't lose sleep over it. I'm more interested in getting my college tuition loans repayed. I'm still trying to be as debt free as possible.