July 8th, 2008 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Brad Taylor, Software Engineer and Gmail Spam CzarPhishing messages are a form of spam that attempt to deceive recipients to gain access to their personal information. A classic one is a message that appears to come from PayPal and attempts t…
July 7th, 2008 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
July 3rd, 2008 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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….
July 2nd, 2008 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
June 20th, 2008 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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 …
June 16th, 2008 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
June 6th, 2008 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
May 27th, 2008 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
May 13th, 2008 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Wiltse Carpenter, Tech Lead, Gmail PerformanceGreat performance has always been an obsession at Google and it’s something that we think about and work on everyday. We want Gmail to be really fast, and we keep working on ways to make it faster…
May 6th, 2008 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Product Marketing ManagerThe sight of someone scrolling through hundreds of email messages trying to find a specific one is like fingers on a chalkboard for me. With a few tricks, you can use Gmail to find the exact message…
April 30th, 2008 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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 …
April 22nd, 2008 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
April 18th, 2008 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
April 8th, 2008 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…
April 7th, 2008 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
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…