Showing posts with label Gmail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gmail. Show all posts

Friday, 30 December 2016

Why does Gmail take longer to search your inbox than Google takes to search the entire web?


A very good question as per perspective of information retrieval person, so let's go to the core of question, actually someone from Gmail could probably answer this better, but here are some factors that make mail search harder in some ways:


  • The total contents of the web is actually smaller than the sum of the sizes of the contents of everyone's gmail. This means it could take more servers to hold all the indexes for mail search than for web search. Yes, users are only searching across their own mail, but servers are still needed to store all the indexes so that every user can do this.
  • When you search the web, for the most part, you're getting the same results for your query as anyone else would get for that query. This means caching works well for web search. Most search engines have a small "hot index" with the most popular content that can handle the majority of queries which is replicated out to lots of local data-centers, giving low average response time even if the worst case is slow.
  • Gmail search results are sorted by time and need to be perfect matches, whereas web search results are sorted by relevance and approximations can be made to cut corners.
Must Read: How to earn money from your website?

Also, from an economic perspective, Gmail generates relatively low revenue for Google compared to web search, so they have less of a reason to invest in it


Thanks and stay blessed!

Thursday, 29 December 2016

How many Google employees can access your's Gmail data ?

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At a minimum, they need to be able to comply with subpoenas from the government, so whatever employees process those need to be able to access arbitrary Gmail accounts.

I have also heard that if you work on Gmail within Google, you need to sign a document that says that you will not abuse your privileges, but that even if you do end up seeing anyone's email, you agree to not tell anyone outside of Google about it or even the fact that you were able to see it. 


Also Read: How many Google employees can access your's Gmail data ?

Aside from that I think their processes are pretty solid and generally require approval and proof of necessity in order for normal employees to get to the data.

Thanks and stay blessed!

Saturday, 4 June 2016

The 10 Important URLs That Every Google User Should Know



The 10 Important URLs That Every Google User Should Know

Which websites and apps have access to your Google account? Where do they store your searches and location history? These 10 links will reveal everything Google knows about you.
What does Google know about the places you've visited recently? What are your interests as determined by Google? Where does Google keep a list of every word that you've ever typed in the search box? Where can you get a list of Google ads that were of interest to you?


Thursday, 2 June 2016

How to login with two gmail accounts in chrome?


There are plenty of reasons to keep multiple Gmail accounts, but until quite recently, our only option to keep them open simultaneously was to keep them in separate browsers, which is a massive pain and too resource-intensive for many users. Google has relented, and now lets us keep up to 10 accounts signed in at the same time on one browser. Here's how to get started:

  1. Log in to Google using any service and account you'd like (Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, etc).
  2. Head over to the Google Accounts Multiple Sessions page. Click On, then tick the boxes next to the info statements that follow it. If you're used to just clicking and moving on, you may want to read these, as they're pretty informative. Click Save, and you're good to go!
  1. Sign out of any currently logged-in accounts.
  2. Log in to any account you'd like. At the top right, you should see your account name, as usual. Click it and select "Switch account."

The first time you do this for any given account, you'll need to add it and sign in as usual; afterward, it should show up in a list you can pick for quick changes.

How to change and set the default font in Gmail?


Step 1: Log in to Gmail from your Web browser(Google)
Step 2: Open the settings menu in the upper right-hand corner and choose Labs.
Step 3: Scroll down to "Default Text Styling" in the list, and enable it.
Step 4: Click on the General tab of the settings and find "Default text style."
Step 5: Adjust the font-face, size, style, and color of the text to your liking.
If you change your mind, you can always set it back to the original font, or choose another of your liking.

How to check if someone blocked my emails on Gmail?


As of now Gmail does not support 'blocking' emails. However, one can set up emails from specific email-ids to be sent directly into the 'Spam' folder.


There are Chrome and Mozilla extensions available which notify you whether the mail that you sent has been opened or not. You can track your mails through them and know if they are being read or sent to spam.


You cannot block emails on Gmail.  You can however put the email address on the spam list so any email with this particular email address will go directly to the spam folder.  Or you can create rules to delete emails with this email address as soon as you get it.

In both occasion the owner of the email address won't know about these.