May 13th, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Garry Boyer, Software EngineerEver since we launched Google Calendar, people in our forum have been pretty vocal about a missing piece — an integrated task list. “To-do would be tooo-rific,” “I really, really, really need to use a to-do list…
May 6th, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Peter Chane, Product ManagerWe recently announced that Google profile results now appear at the bottom of U.S. name-query search pages. Creating a profile gives you greater control over what people find when they search for your name on Googl…
April 30th, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Adam de Boor, Software EngineerI used to have a problem. People would ask me questions, over chat or email, and I’d have to leave Gmail to search Google for an answer. Then I’d have to select the answer, copy it, go back to Gmail and paste th…
April 29th, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Darren Lewis, Software EngineerFor a short period of time after launching emoticons for mail, we believed we had successfully captured the entirety of human expression in 19 faces (we’re still debating whether the robot face counts), importa…
April 23rd, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Marc Miller, Software EngineerA few months ago, we added fast online viewing of PDFs in your browser. As of today, that same viewer now supports TIFF and Microsoft PowerPoint document formats too: you can now view TIFF and PPT files online, d…
April 17th, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Ari Leichtberg, Software EngineerHave you ever realized you mistakenly left someone important out of an email, or just spent too much time trying to decide who from your long list of contacts to include? Well, some of us on the Gmail team fe…
April 10th, 2009 | by Zach Yeskel | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Kent Tamura, Software EngineerWell, it’s about time. You no longer have to use workarounds to put images into your messages or attach images when you really want to inline them. Just turn on “Inserting images” from the Labs tab under Settings…
April 8th, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Marcin Brodziak, Software EngineerLet’s say your girlfriend sends you an angry email. It’s mostly about how you behaved at the party last night and then left for a business trip without saying goodbye. You read it from the other side of the g…
April 7th, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Rob Kroeger, Engineer, Google MobileToday we’re introducing a major revision to Gmail for mobile that takes advantage of the latest browser technology available on iPhone and Android devices. We’ve updated the user interface, made it faster t…
April 2nd, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Todd Jackson, Gmail Product ManagerFive years ago yesterday, Gmail starting giving people a gig. What started as an internal tool for Google employees is now used by tens of millions of people around the world in 52 languages. In honor of the…
April 2nd, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Ibrahim Bokharouss, Software EngineerOn the Gmail team, we believe finding the right email among thousands of messages can be as important as finding the right web page across the billions of web pages out there. So with the aim of making sea…
March 30th, 2009 | by Zach Yeskel | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Anuj Sharma, Software EngineerUntil now, there hasn’t been a good way to send email to friends and family in Hindi, my native language and their language of choice. That’s why I’m happy to announce a new feature for Gmail that lets you type email in In…
March 30th, 2009 | by Zach Yeskel | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Pal Takacsi, Engineering ManagerThis post comes to you from our team in Switzerland, a small country with no fewer than four official languages and many more spoken by people living here. The majority of Gmail users are outside the U.S., so i…
March 19th, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Michael Leggett, User Experience DesignerSometimes I regret sending a message the morning after. Other times I send a message and then immediately notice a mistake. I forget to attach a file or email the birthday girl that I can’t make her su…
March 18th, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Vishal Kasera, Software EngineerMy email is full of links: my friends send around YouTube videos to try and get a laugh, we share Picasa and Flickr albums with photos from last weekend’s camping trip, and we email around the Yelp reviews of r…