Google will ‘prioritize’ your email for you
p2pnet view P2P | Advertising:- Online adco Google says it wants to censor your email —- but in a friendly, Googly way.
People get a lot of (G)mail “that isn’t outright junk but isn’t very important—bologna, or ‘bacn’,” it blogs.
Enter Priority Inbox, a “filter” to not only classify outright spam, “but also to help users separate this ‘bologna’ from the important stuff”.
“In a way” says Gargle, “Priority Inbox is like your personal assistant, helping you focus on the messages that matter without requiring you to set up complex rules.”
How will it censor your email on your behalf?
By reading it before you do.
“Gmail uses a variety of signals to predict which messages are important, including the people you email most (if you email Bob a lot, a message from Bob is probably important) and which messages you open and reply to (these are likely more important than the ones you skip over)”, it says, going on >>>
And as you use Gmail, it will get better at categorizing messages for you. You can help it get better by clicking the or buttons at the top of the inbox to correctly mark a conversation as important or not important. (You can even set up filters to always mark certain things important or unimportant, or rearrange and customize the three inbox sections.)
“Priority Inbox will be rolling out to all Gmail users, including those of you who use Google Apps, over the next week or so”, says Google, adding:
“Once you see the ‘New! Priority Inbox’ link in the top right corner of your Gmail account (or the new Priority Inbox tab in Gmail Settings), take a look.”
Scary.
No thanks.
… and identi.ca
blogs – Email overload? Try Priority Inbox, August 30, 2010
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August 31st, 2010 at 3:25 pm
It’s a reverse spam filter. Spam filters try to guess which messages are junk based on what you tell it and file those messages in the spam folder. This is just doing the opposite. What’s so scary about that?
August 31st, 2010 at 11:35 pm
Spammers should sue them because this “prioritizing” is against Net Neutrality.
September 1st, 2010 at 10:26 pm
What’s so scary about the new Google feature? Read here (in Russian):
http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/infosecurity/103268/
There are private RSS feeds and Google passed the private RSS feed to other people.