Sick and tired of overloaded inbox? The internet search giant, Google, seems to be making changes to its Gmail service quiet frequently. Just in from the developers corner, Google's email service, Gmail, have been presented with another new feature.
The latest edition in Gmail is so smart that it automatically prioritize important emails in the bulk of messages received every day. This would help people manage emails and read and reply what is important first. Google has named this new feature as 'Priority Inbox' which works accordingly to what it says.
Certain set of algorithms work together to analyse the user's email behavior, which further acts to rank emails accordingly, depending on their importance. A user needs to activate the feature of 'Priority Inbox' in order to utilize the service.
After activating the feature, Gmail distributes your messages into three different categories. Emails which are deemed important and unread are pushed at the top. Messages which are 'starred' by users are inserted second on the list while the remaining emails are dropped in the last.
Gmail reads the activity of the user, judging to what are the most frequently emailed contacts, content of the email, number of times a contact is copied, which ends up setting the priorities.
Doug Aberdeen, Google's Senior Software Engineer wrote:
Priority inbox is like your personal assistant, helping you focus on the messages that matter without requiring you to set up complex rules. Gmail has always been pretty good at filtering junk mail in to the ‘spam’ folder, but today, in addition to spam, people get a lot of mail that isn’t outright junk but isn’t very important.
Majority of the Gmail users might have witnessed the new feature already, while those who haven't would be presented with the Priority inbox feature in a couple of weeks.