Google Looks to Make Your Email Smarter with Priority Inbox

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Jessica Guynn

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Google is rolling out a new feature called Priority Inbox for those of us who suffer from email overload.The feature will pop up as an option for Gmail and Google Apps users starting Tuesday.
 
Priority Inbox divides your inbox into three sections: “important,” “starred” and “everything else.” It monitors your messages and sorts them based on a number of criteria, including how often you correspond with the sender, how often you read a message that contains certain keywords and whether the message is addressed just to you. The most pressing messages appear at the top of your screen so you don’t miss them and can respond to them first.
 
Interestingly, one of the technologies used to determine whether email is important is based on how Gmail determines if a message is spam.
 
Keith Coleman, Gmail’s product manager, said Google had been working on a way to solve email overload since it came out with Gmail. The idea is that over time ...
 
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