New feature from Gmail team – Mail Goggles
This is a new feature from the Gmail team for those who send a mail and regret later that they wish they didn’t send that. It’s called Mail Goggles. The service actually is like a type of verification in type of puzzles within limited time, which you have to solve and then the email would be sent.
If you fail at solving that, the mail is sent to drafts. A cool one for those who are dozed up during nights and sent unlikely emails to closed ones, but next day feel ashamed of that.
This is what the Gmail engineer says:
When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you’re in the right state of mind?
By default, Mail Goggles is only active late night on the weekend as that is the time you’re most likely to need it. Once enabled, you can adjust when it’s active in the General settings.
Hopefully Mail Goggles will prevent many of you out there from sending messages you wish you hadn’t. Like that late night memo — I mean mission statement — to the entire firm.
Go to your gmail settings > labs and then there you have to enable gmail goggles!
This is the preview from my gmail for the settings(click to enlarge)
October 7th, 2008 at 5:27 am
Good post. Googleblogs are a great place to learn about new apps and ideas.
October 7th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Wow
Google always comes with new ideas,, I am so sure google will take over the internet world or rather they say.. they already did it..
October 7th, 2008 at 8:29 am
good new features coming out by G and that was a bit funny what Gmail engineer says “Mail Goggles is only active late night on the weekend as that is the time you’re most likely to need it” … lol
October 7th, 2008 at 8:57 am
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October 7th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
i really am amaze with google sometime…. anwyay they pay for creativity ….thus that figure how great their mechanism work
October 7th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
I really love Google, and this is another reason to love them.
October 7th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Thats a really good feature that google introduced, it is useful for not sending mails in sleep, but when you are in a hurry and you have to send it at this moment and dont have any time, if you see puzzles at that time you get frustrated and irritated,
so people before activating this service see weather you have patience or not or else it might result in a broken screen of your desktop
October 8th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Now dont worry to check your email even if you are drunk, goggles will check you!
October 9th, 2008 at 6:14 am
Google seems to have a lot of time working on these kind of useless stuff.
Do you really think that would help you out? Why not have a default image verification process rather than this puzzle and stuff.
Lets see if people actually enable this.
October 25th, 2008 at 11:41 am
@ web design
yeah Right
who would want to get online and do important work when that person is DRUNK..
atleast i dont want to..
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