Googlemail aka Gmail yesterday announced on its blog that it was to remove one of the most common excuses for consumers not switching email providers, “It’s too difficult to switch”.

Google have done this through making a new tool available within the newly named “accounts and import” tab which allows new users to import both emails and contacts from their existing accounts. Nearly 50 existing domains are supported from the launch of the tool. A full list is available on googlemail help here. The list includes Microsoft’s hotmail and Yahoo!, two of google’s biggest webmail competitors.

The new feature is not yet rolled out to all existing gmail accounts but google have said it will be slowly rolled out to all users.