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Gmail Finally Releases its AMP-based ‘Dynamic Emails’ for its G-Suite User

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After a year-long time, of the announcement, Google is finally has released the AMP support in Gmail for its G Suite audience. The company announced that it is going to release the beta of its fast-loading AMP tech to Gmail starting from today. The new feature is specially designed to provide users with more interactive messaging experience.

According to Google, these Dynamic Emails will give the user more web-based interactive encounter such that the user can fill out forms, browse image carousels, RSVP to an event, reply to Google Docs comments or even browse catalogues, without leaving their inbox and following any external link to a separate website.

The AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) technology will help Gmail to keep the content fresh and latest information will be displayed on the screen every single time, like new job recommendations, latest comment threads, product listings or social network recommendations within the email irrespective of the time the mail was received.

According to Google, its other products like Google Docs will also automatically gel with the new AMP feature and can be embedded in the messages directly. Hence, the user will not be receiving new emails every single time they are mentioned in a document, rather the thread will get refreshed every time and the user will be able to reply to the mentions from within the inbox.

For the dynamic emails, the company has partnered with other social networks including Doodle, Pinterest, Booking.com, etc. For now, Google has only rolled out the new AMP feature for its desktop G suite users, but according to the post-Google released on Tuesday regarding the same, the mobile version of the new dynamic emails will also roll out soon.

Gmail Will Now Block 100 Million More Spam Messages Every Day Using TensorFlow

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Going to the spam folder and deleting the Spam emails in the Gmail inbox is a regular thing for everyone, and it sometimes is quite annoying when you have to check whether any important mail isn’t there in the spam folder and you can’t simply delete all the emails directly.

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Well, Google already has made various AI programs that according to Google are blocking 99.9 per cent spam. But even then we see many Spam emails in our inboxes.

Last week, Google rolled out the Material Theme for Gmail on Android, featuring company’s latest styling and a few other features. Google has just announced that the new Material Theme is also helping Google’s machine learning models TensorFlow, to block 100 million more spam messages, which will be targeting the remainder 0.1 per cent of the spam.

Gmail, at present, is serving over 1 billion-plus user and blocking 100 million spam messages every day may not help much, but it does not seem bad either. As even the company has built robust programs to block those spam messages, few of them slips through the Gmail’s protection.

From many years, the company has been using the rule-based algorithm to control the spam. The rule-based algorithms are set to follow some specifications in order to block the spam messages, leaving loopholes for the spam. Whereas the new machine learning framework will help it identify the spam based on new patterns. The ML framework uses the algorithms that identifies patterns in large datasets and offer personalized spam protections to account for users.

TensorFlow is an open-source machine learning framework, which was developed by Google in 2015. According to Google, integrating TensorFlow into Gmail will also allow it to better personalize spam filters, and besides spam, the framework may also help in preventing phishing, and malware from reaching inboxes.

Gmail to Hold All Google Inbox Features After its Discontinuation

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It has been more than a decade when Gmail was launched as the Google’s primary e-mail platform. In 2014, Google introduced a new e-mail app Inbox, that was developed as an experimental platform for trying new features that could be added to Gmail.

On Wednesday, Google announced that it is going to say Goodbye to the Inbox app and will close it down for further use, in March 2019. The main reason for shutting it down is said to be that Google wants to focus on Gmail as its main e-mail platform. Many features like snoozing e-mails to later, Smart Reply, Nudges, high-priority notifications, were tested and implemented on Google’s Inbox. All of these features are already integrated into Gmail and are working successfully.

The Product Manager, Matthew Izatt said, “We want to take a more focused approach to help us bring the best e-mail experience to everyone. As a result, we’re planning to focus solely on Gmail and say goodbye to ‘Inbox’ at the end of March 2019.”

However, Google’s Inbox could not create much client base, the ones who have already used the Google’s Inbox, are entirely against the closing down of Google’s Inbox. Google has even created an information guide for the Inbox app users for their easy migration to Gmail. Many Inbox app users have tweeted against its shutting down, saying that moving from Google’s Inbox to Gmail would be like going back to the stone age.

Google has given a time period of almost six months for the Inbox users to get comfortable with Gmail. Izzat, through his blog, also said, “All your conversations are already waiting for you in Gmail,” that means the Inbox users do not have to manually shift their e-mails from Google’s Inbox to Gmail. With the new features added to Gmail in the April of this year, Google had already given a hint that there can be a change in its e-mail platforms.

Paul Buchheit – Creator and Lead Developer of Gmail

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There is no denying in the fact that each of us has used Gmail at least once in our lives and, that fact is proved by the current number of Gmail users, i.e., more than 900 million users. Gmail was launched in 2004, and the lead developer, behind this widely used email platform, is Paul Buchheit. Paul Buchheit is the 23rd employee of Google but, has played a pivotal role in the development of many Google products, in his few years of career with Google.

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Early Life

Paul Buchheit was born on 6 November 1976, in Webster, New York. He did his schooling from Webster Thomas High School. He was a brilliant student and always topped the class every year. Later, he entered Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio to pursue a degree in Science followed by a PhD (Honors) degree. During his college, he was in the rowing team of the college.

Career

As soon as Buchheit completed his education, he started his internship at Microsoft, in 1995. In 1998, he joined at Intel and after one year he became the 23rd employee at Google.

He worked with Google for nearly 7 years and, had become an influential part of Google’s numerous revolutionary programs, including Google Adsense. He also gave the suggestion of the motto, “Don’t Do Evil”, that was practised as the code of conduct within Google for many years.

In 2006, Paul Buchheit left the job at Google and launched a real-time social aggregator named FriendFeed which was a huge success. But later in 2009, it was acquired by Facebook through a private transaction. He also worked for Facebook for a few years and left the job in 2010, to start an investment company named Y Combinator.

Paul Buchheit always encourages startup companies saying that startups are more than simply a clever way to make money. Before Y Combinator, he had already invested in 83 startups through Angel Investment, and with Y Combinator he is supporting many budding companies with their startups.

Founding Gmail

Before Gmail was launched, the various email service providers, like Microsoft, had given a limited storage of 4 MB. According to Paul Buchheit, every email service was getting worse instead of getting better. And the lesser storage provided by every email platforms grabbed his attention. The planning of creating Gmail was started many years before it was announced. The development of Gmail started in 2001 and in 2004, Gmail was launched, with increased storage of 1000 MB of storage, fast dynamic interface, quick and accurate search including the concept of organised emails. Even Mr Doerr from Microsoft gave a statement that Gmail was like a wakeup call for them.

Personal Life

Paul married his girlfriend April Buchheit on 10 August 2002. Currently, he is living with his wife and two children in California.