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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Teh Internets Google Answers Your Email so You Don't Have To

Posted by Dominic Holden on Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:02 PM

Gmail has introduced a new feature, Gmail Autopilot. Here's what they say: "As more and more everyday communication takes place over email, lots of people have complained about how hard it is to read and respond to every message. This is because they actually read and respond to all their messages." Autopilot will scan your message, and, based on your past messages, automatically formulate a short reply. Here are a couple of the sample emails Autopilot can send on your behalf:

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This is an even better idea than Gmail Paper, which Google rolled out a couple years ago on this date.

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Funny thing is, this was pretty much where we expected to be by now at the once high-flying Kana Communications had the market not crashed circa 2000.

Meantime, it looks like there has been no improvement in the algorithms used in Kana software by giants such as Yahoo and EBay and PayPal and tons more to prep answers to customer email since then.

Posted by ex-Kana Product Manager on April 1, 2009 at 5:03 PM

my digital humanities class this morning assumed this was an april fool's joke.

Posted by tuesday on April 1, 2009 at 5:16 PM

Did you just wake up?

Posted by stinkbug on April 1, 2009 at 5:18 PM

happy april's fools

Posted by laurito on April 1, 2009 at 5:18 PM

awesome hoax! very interesting replications!

Posted by gmail autopilot on April 1, 2009 at 5:19 PM

An April Fool's joke? Next you are probably going to say that Gmail Paper was a hoax, too.

Posted by Dominic Holden on April 1, 2009 at 5:22 PM

I thought Gmail Paper was an excellent idea.

Posted by Lily Fluffbottom on April 1, 2009 at 5:46 PM

welcome to what the rest of the world saw 12 hours ago.

Posted by OMG LOL *yawn* on April 1, 2009 at 6:22 PM

Ah, that's great!

Posted by AC on April 1, 2009 at 10:20 PM

You guys are retarded. Read the whole post and it's obvious that Dom knows what the fuck is going on.

Any opportunity to be a snarky douche is good enough for sloggers, though.

Posted by brian on April 1, 2009 at 11:50 PM

Why waste my limited internet time?

Posted by Stephen on April 2, 2009 at 5:52 PM

dimana y.... nyari situs not balok???????

Posted by Angga Agustian on May 9, 2009 at 11:32 PM