Posted by Darick Tong, Gmail engineer We Gmail developers are arguably among the most demanding of Gmail’s users. So in addition to the feedback we get from all of you, a lot of the ideas for new features come from our own frustrations and experiences….
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing ManagerToday we announced that both the Obama and McCain campaigns as well as political contributors from Newsweek to POLITICO are sharing news with Google Reader this election season. You can see thei…
Posted by Erwin D’Souza, Gmail Engineer Your email account can contain a lot of personal information, from bank alerts to love letters. Email that, I’m sure, you don’t always want other people to see. We understand how important your Gmail accounts are…
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing Manager When we launched the Gmail blog exactly one year ago, our goal was to provide you with new feature announcements, insight into how the Gmail team works, and tips on how to become a Gmail ninja….
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing Manager For those of you using newly released Firefox 3, or willing to give it a try, you can take advantage of a new feature that lets you set Gmail as the default for all email links — those that c…
Nika Smith, User ExperienceOften, the features we launch seem so simple that you might think they’re the result of blatantly obvious design decisions. In fact, every feature is subjected to a healthy dose of scrutiny within the Gmail team, and usually …
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing ManagerLast week we launched Gmail Labs, a way for you to test out experimental Gmail features before they’re ready for prime time. This week, we want to show you what the most popular Labs features ca…
Posted by Keith Coleman, Product ManagerWe have a lot of ideas for Gmail — many come as suggestions from Gmail users, many come from people here at Google. But there’s only so much we can do at any one time.People often ask how we decide what to build…
Posted by Sze-jun Tsai, Help Center guruIf you access Gmail via a phone or email client using POP, you may be frustrated by the fact that any action you take, such as reading, sorting or deleting, doesn’t sync with your Gmail account. You may have read…
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing ManagerWhen I add a new friend to Gmail chat, sometimes my friend’s email address is added as their contact name, such as [email protected]. I personally like to have the name of all my chat friends …
Posted by Shirin Oskooi, Product ManagerThanks for all the feedback you have sent us about Google Calendar Sync. We’re rolling out an update that should make it a lot more useful.Previously, your Google Calendar email address needed to be the organizer…
Posted by Kathryn McGarr, Online Operations AssociateWe hear reports that many users don’t archive their email. If you don’t regularly click on the “archive” button or never even thought about it, here are some reasons you might want to get in the habi…
Posted by Keith Coleman, Product ManagerDespite our best efforts, Gmail doesn’t yet build itself. So we’re looking for good people to keep making it better and better. It’s fun and rewarding to work on a product that you, your friends, other people you…
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing ManagerA friend of mine recently told me that she used group chat in Gmail for the first time the other day. She was talking to two coworkers about a new project and essentially serving as a go-between…
Posted by Olivier Beyssac, Site Reliability EngineerWhen I switched to Gmail more than a year ago, I still had a significant amount of old email stored with my old address. Because I keep messages for a long time and like to frequently search them, I w…