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  • Chat with Your Inbox: Googles New Gmail Live Feature Set to Revolutionize Email Search

    Chat with Your Inbox: Googles New Gmail Live Feature Set to Revolutionize Email Search

    Google is currently in the process of testing a new feature for both iOS and Android known as Gmail Live. This innovative feature will allow users to engage in a conversational interaction with the Gmail application, particularly when seeking information from a specific email. This function is particularly beneficial for users like myself who have hundreds of emails crowding their Gmail inbox, providing a more efficient method to retrieve information rather than manually searching through the inbox.

    Understanding the Gmail Live Feature

    Upon opening the Gmail application and tapping the search bar, an option labeled “Ask Gmail” will be visible. This option represents the text version of the new feature wherein users can type in a natural language query and receive an AI Overview in response. If a user prefers to utilize voice commands, they can do so by tapping an icon situated within the search bar which resembles the Gemini Live icon, distinguished by a sound wave and a sparkle.

    Tapping this icon will present a full-page user interface (still in the testing phase), similar to Gemini Live, providing examples of prompts that can be used. For instance, if a user wishes to check the status of orders placed with Amazon, they could ask, “What are the updates on my latest orders?” This question is then transcribed on the screen and is subsequently answered after Gmail Live processes the question. The response is simultaneously displayed on the screen and read aloud.

    The Future of Gmail Live

    The Gmail Live feature, which is currently under testing for both Android and iOS, is set to be launched later this summer for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. Subscribers to these Google AI services will discover the ability to interact with Gmail in a conversational manner.

    Google AI Pro is priced at $19.99 per month and is crafted for power users without the high costs associated with an enterprise subscription. It includes YouTube Premium Lite, 5TB of storage, and a $10 monthly credit for Google Cloud. Google AI Ultra, on the other hand, is priced between $99.99 to $199.99 per month, providing 20TB of storage, a full YouTube Premium subscription, and a $40 monthly Google Cloud credit.

    Questions & Answers

    What is the new feature that Google is testing?
    Google is testing a feature called Gmail Live which allows users to interact with the Gmail application in a conversational manner.

    How does the Gmail Live feature work?
    Users can either type a natural language query or use voice commands to ask Gmail a question. The question is processed, and an answer is provided both visually on the screen and audibly.

    Who can access the Gmail Live feature?
    The Gmail Live feature will be made available to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

  • Clean up your Gmail inbox to check out the new “Inbox Zero Graphic”

    Clean up your Gmail inbox to check out the new “Inbox Zero Graphic”

    Because most of us never take the time to completely clean out our Gmail inbox, we usually never get the opportunity to reach what is known as “Inbox Zero.” With no email messages cluttering up your inbox, you are rewarded with a special illustration that Google recently revised. Before the change, the image showed a cartoon drawing of a woman without eyes reading a book in the woods with the sun in the background.

    Underneath the illustration, Google wrote “You’ve finished. Nothing in Primary.” We guess that this drawing is not enough of an incentive to get Gmail users to do some landscaping and delete their old and unneeded Gmail.

    It reminds this writer of a cereal bowl that yours truly once had as a kid. On the bottom of the bowl was an illustration of two popular (at the time) cartoon mice from television named Trixie and Dixie. To get to the drawing of the pair, you had to finish everything in the bowl giving you an incentive to eat all of your breakfast.

    Looking for an image that might motivate Gmail subscribers into cleaning out their inbox, a new illustration can be found on the Gmail app. It consists of colorful boxes and rectangles that look like empty cubby holes. Underneath the image, Google wrote “You’re all done. Nothing in Primary.”

    So get to work everyone and start getting rid of those junk emails.

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  • Inbox gets its official shutdown date and Google lies

    Inbox gets its official shutdown date and Google lies

    Google let Inbox users know quite a while ago that it would be shutting down the app in March 2019 and Google has continually promised that users’ favorite Inbox features would be integrated into Gmail before anyone was forced to leave Inbox. Now, Google has put a specific date on the Inbox shutdown despite that promise not having been kept.

    Inbox users have been getting a pop-up notification for a while reminding them that the app is going away and urging users to try out Gmail, but in the past day, that notification has gotten more specific. Now, the notification gives a more accurate timeline with the number of days left before Inbox is shut down and the countdown points to April 1st. Unfortunately, right after that Google straight up lies to Inbox users by claiming that “You can find your favorite Inbox features in the Gmail app.”

    As an avid Inbox user since the app launched, I can say unequivocally that is a lie. Gmail has gotten options to snooze emails, which is probably someone’s favorite Inbox feature, but that’s about it. Gmail still doesn’t have all of Inbox’s bundles (like Trips), it doesn’t highlight actionable items inline (like attachments, places, etc), it doesn’t have an option to save links to Inbox (instead it added Keep and Tasks to Gmail’s sidebar, which isn’t the same, it doesn’t have an option to quickly archive all items in a group (be it a bundle or a group of messages from a specific day), and Gmail also doesn’t have Inbox’s option to pin messages or notes.

    Maybe Google will surprise us and add all of those features in the next two weeks, but given how slowly features from Inbox have been added to Gmail, it seems pretty unlikely. In the meantime, users are being forced to leave Inbox and unless Google surprises us all with a major upgrade to Gmail, it seems poised to have lied about what Inbox users can expect when migrating to Gmail.

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  • Email Users in Indonesia Check Inboxes Hoping for a Retail Promo

    Email Users in Indonesia Check Inboxes Hoping for a Retail Promo

    Email has long served as a reliable beast of burden for marketers —a bankable but unexciting way for brands to tap into a dedicated audience that has opted-in to communication. The same holds true in Indonesia, but on steroids.

    A survey of email users in the country conducted by research firm JakPat in January 2017 found that a significant portion were interested in receiving marketing communications. Interestingly, 30.6% of respondents named receiving shopping promotions as one of the main reasons they used email.

    Marketers looking to craft messages for email users in Indonesia should be aware that the vast majority of respondents, more than 80%, primarily used mobile phones to check their email, according to the survey. That means that to effectively reach consumers in Indonesia, mobile-optimized email design is a must.

    Mobile phone email users also overwhelmingly relied on a dedicated email app over a web browser. Fully 86% of respondents used an app, compared with just 14% who checked email on a browser.

    A March 2016 survey of mobile device owners in Indonesia from Experian Marketing Services underscores how effective email ads can be. It found that 57% of respondents had been influenced to make a purchase by an email ad—more than had been swayed by either website banner ads or search ads.