Sunday, May 22, 2011

Mark as Important : GMAIL

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When there is a feature of 'Starred' mails to flag important mails why do you need a special feature like 'Make it important'?

Google launched 'Mark as important' feature in Gmail. It was about two days back this feature popped up when logged in. It was shocking to see that Google gave a thought about what could be important and what can be made important for me :P. 
When there is a feature of 'Starred' mails to flag important mails why do you need a special feature like 'Make it important'?
 When I opened my mail box after this feature is automatically turned on, I found emails from facebook, a few spam surveys, offers,contests emails are marked important for demonstration. The moment I changed my stance on these mails and prioritized a few other mails, Gmail marked incoming mails from these contacts as important & calls it Priority Inbox.
This could be a good feature when you have so much junk in your mail and would like to stay with the junk. But, I guess its better to unsubscribe or spam the unnecessary emails and get rid  of yourselves form being an internet victim.
At this point of the time in Web World when data theft by Apple, Google are questioned this feature looks fishy. Google has been tracking the keywords in mails for its advertisements. This could be one move by Google to clearly influence advertisers by actually picking up important mails. As of now I don't find a great buzz on this feature but in case of data theft, this may be questioned.
It is as simple as a consumer survey with no remuneration. This is new feature in Google money making machine. I hope Google doesn't care about the login information retrieved by me at many 'forgot my password' instances. :)  



2 comments:

  1. The moment I published this post, Google shows me 'Email Campaign app' advertisement in the "Post Published Successfully" page..

    :( :(

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  2. If you don't disable this feature, it screws up the "offline mail" feature.

    BTW Offline Mail is not compatible above version 3.6.18 of Firefox.

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