Gmail turns 15 and adds new features

Gmail turns 15 and adds new features



This is an account of the evolution of the messaging service and the news it brings.



  Before April 2004, the date that Gmail arrived, the emails were very different from what they are now. The inboxes used to be saturated by "spam" or spam, there was no easy way to search or archive the messages, and the users had to constantly delete the emails to not exceed the storage limit.

If you remember, in the first versions Gmail integrated a Google search bar and grouped the messages in threads of conversation to find them and answer them in a more practical way. It also offered free storage capacity of 1GB: almost 100 times what was available at that time.


  It was not a clean interface, much less, but it gave some kind of order to the swell of content that reached the mailbox. It quickly became, after Hotmail -now Microsoft's Outlook-, one of the most used free mail services in the world. 

In the mid-2000s, when unwanted emails reached their peak, Gmail incorporated a feature so that users could block content that came from certain recipients and help make email more secure.

"Over the years, we have improved our spam filtering capabilities with artificial intelligence and, currently, AI helps us block almost 10 million unwanted emails per minute," Gmail said in a statement.

In this 2007 video, Google officials explained how they fought junk mail.

As the SmartPhones were arriving, the messaging service was also transformed to offer a mobile version. In November 2012, Gmail outperformed Outlook in terms of the number of registered users globally.

What will Gmail bring?
Gmail wants to be more welfare That's why it will use Smart Compose, a tool that works with artificial intelligence to predict text content and help write emails faster.


Smart Compose promises to make personalized suggestions for each user depending on the expressions or ways of speaking that he usually uses. The function will also suggest the "subject" based on the text of the email.


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