Google is integrating artificial intelligence in your gmail inbox, whether you like it or not. Till Thursday, it is rolling an AI-intelligent “smart search” layout globally, which suggests what it thinks you want to see the most.
When you input a search word, Gmail will no longer list the respective emails in chronological order, from the latest to the oldest; Instead, it will list the email based on its own relevance ranking, which takes into account the most clicked emails and frequent contacts.
The “most relevant” will be available for users with individual Google accounts that are in the official Gmail app to reach their inboxes on the web and for Android and iOS. Business users will be provided later access. You will still have the option to start “the most recent” using the new dropdown menu below the search bar and you will still have the option to show “the most relevant” feature.
“With this update, the emails you are looking for is more likely to be at the top of your search results – saving valuable time and help you find important information more easily,” Google said in a blog post about Gmail’s advanced search features,
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Would this Gmail update be better than similar mail app changes?
The fact is that the Google declaration opens with “if you ever struggling with finding information in your overflow inbox, you are not alone”. Search features in both Gmail and Outlook Inbox have been a point of dispute over the years. Users complain that even when using hyper-specific discovery words, they find it difficult to detect emails.
However, Apple made a similar change for mixed reactions in the mail app with recently iOS 18 updates. The categories have four tabs in the inbox layout: primary, transactions, updates and promotion. The mail determines which category each email falls, of which primary is most important and acts as a default category.
The users complained that if the mail mistakenly believes a significant email, it is said, a newspaper or payment receipt, they could miss it, especially it was difficult to see that new emails were received in other categories other than primary. Gmail can withstand similar gut if its AI decides whether an email is relevant or not, independent of the user.
Gmail’s big AI push is beyond search
This is not just AI facility Google has added to Gmail in the last few months. Users can chat with Google’s chatbot, Gemini about the contents of their inboxes, or draft a response. They can use Gemini to connect events directly from an email to the Google calendar.
In October, Gmail introduced the “summary card”, which appears at the top of an open email and enables users to do direct related tasks within their inboxes. These include tracking package, checking for flights and paying bills.
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