The battle for the best Email provider just got one level higher as Google Gmail redesigned its technology. This week Google Gmail introduces another novel feature: “Priority Inbox.” The Internet Giant announced its newest innovation just weeks after releasing their upgrade on the “undo” ability. The “Priority Inbox” was scheduled to be rolled out last Monday midnight.
Gmail’s latest add on is designed to help user sort out their most important and urgent emails. Using an algorithm based on factors such as the identity of the sender, key phrases in the message, and the manner of which the mail was sent (individual or group) the computer will determine the most important e-mails and place them on the “Priority Inbox” (top of the inbox).
The Priority Inbox’s function is somewhat similar to spam filters used by Google and other e-mail providers. The key difference is that Priority Inbox is more sophisticated that it automatically sort the emails according to level of importance and urgency.
For example, users who get tons of emails daily from family to advertisement can see the messages from their family and friends ranked ahead of the other non important emails like the promotional emails from a web-based service users signed up for. “The crude version used to be only separating spam mails from non-spam mails” said Gmail product director Keith Coleman. “But with the advent of “Priority Inbox”, the non-spam mail will also be considered in varying degrees of importance,” he adds.
Gmail users will definitely welcome the company’s latest improvement, especially those who are swamped by thousands of message daily. This feature will allow them to further personalize their priority boxes, deleting emails that have been automatically sent to the lowest box and adding others they’d like to prioritize.
According to Coleman the concept was developed in response to the complains and grievances heard from a lot of their active users. “They are getting more emails than they can usually handle with their filters and manual setups. And so we wanted to give them a solution to this,” he said to reporters during a press conference.
Last Tuesday morning, users were already able to get a glimpse of the new feature link in their email dashboard that will let them activate the Priority Inbox. Some users, however, prefers the older version complaining about “missing mails”. Coleman suggested to use it more often. “It will get better just as you use Gmail. You can help it learn faster,” he said.
The redesigned inbox is just one of the several recent changes in Gmail. Last week, the company announced the improved “undo” ability which allows user to “hold” a sent message for 30 seconds and the installation of a more upgraded “compose mail”. Google also announced the integration of Google Voice into Gmail, which enable users to make calls directly from their Gmail pages, last month.
According to a digital research made by the Radicati Group, more than 294 billion emails are sent and received daily. The typical corporate computer averages about 110 emails everyday.
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