June 23rd, 2009 | by Zach Yeskel | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Zach Yeskel, Product Marketing ManagerIf you got 100 new messages, how long would it take you to get through them all? An hour? Five minutes? How would you find the important ones, reply to the ones that require an immediate reply, and mark t…
June 16th, 2009 | by Zach Yeskel | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Benjamin Grol, Product ManagerUp until now, Gmail only supported some contact fields. Whenever someone imported their contacts from apps like Outlook and OS X Address Book, we used to put fields Gmail didn’t recognize into the contact’s notes…
June 12th, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Joyce Sohn, Product Marketing ManagerIt’s that time of year when students are graduating, and in many cases getting yet another email address to check — an alumni account — as a graduation present.Whether you have an alumni address, a wor…
June 11th, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Corey Anderson, Software Engineer (and puzzle creator) Flying 500 miles per hour at a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet, it always seemed odd that I could use approved electronic devices, but I couldn’t get online to chat or send an email. Luc…
June 4th, 2009 | by Zach Yeskel | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Zach Yeskel, Product Marketing ManagerMy friends email me all the time with ideas for improving Gmail. Just this weekend, my friend Dave said he wanted a way to select all of his messages with a certain label (like “urgent”). Two weeks ago, A…
May 21st, 2009 | by Zach Yeskel | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Peter Balsiger, Software EngineerWhenever I open up my inbox at work, I’m never surprised to find several new messages waiting to be read. The same thing can’t always be said about my personal Gmail account. Sometimes I end up checking my mai…
May 19th, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Darren Lewis, Software EngineerBack in the early days of human existence, before language had fully developed, our caveman ancestors probably did a lot of grunting. Language, and thus life, were pretty simple: watch out for that saber-toothed…
May 13th, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Chad Parry, Gmail EngineerGmail users can be a passionate bunch. Many of us have, at one time or another, encouraged or cajoled friends and family to join us @gmail.com. But switching email accounts can be pretty painful. It’s like getting ou…
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…