Your Gmail search results are about to get a huge change - and I'm not sure you're going to be happy with it

Date:
Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:34:06 +0000

Description:
Gmail is adding Gemini AI-powered search to help find the emails you actually need.

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- Gmail reveals new way of displaying search results
- Users can choose between "Most relevant" and "Most recent" results
- Gemini AI looks at details such as favorite contacts to determine what
is relevant

Finding the email you need in a crowded Gmail inbox should finally be a lot easier thanks to another AI-powered new update.

The email provider is rolling out a new, smarter search function that will
list results in terms of relevance, rather than just in chronological order.

Factoring in details such as recency, most-clicked emails, and frequent contacts, the company says this means the emails youre actually looking for should be far more likely to be at the top of your search results.

Gmail "Most relevant"

With this update, the emails youre looking for are far more likely to be at
the top of your search results saving you valuable time and helping you find important information more easily, the company wrote in a blog post
announcing the news.

Users will still be able to search for the most recent results, with Gmail adding a toggle to switch between "Most relevant" and "Most recent" results, based on how they like to search.

Google says the move can help reduce search time, pinpointing the information people are looking for more quickly and accurately.

The feature is rolling out now to personal Google accounts across the world, and will be available on the Gmail app for Android and iOS, with business
users also set to receive the feature soon.

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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/pro/your-gmail-search-results-are-about-to-get-a-hug e-change-and-im-not-sure-youre-going-to-be-happy-with-it

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Finding the email you need in a crowded Gmail inbox should finally be a lot easier thanks to another AI-powered new update.

The email provider is rolling out a new, smarter search function that
will list results in terms of relevance, rather than just in
chronological order.

I already don't like it. I don't trust Google nor do I trust Gmail and it's because I've always suspected them of spying on our email.

And now they're announcing that they're going to be analyzing our email for relevance! That's an invasion of privacy.

They already openly analyze our mail under the guise of spam moderation, but this sounds like it's going to be even more analytical.

Can't trust em.

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Hello Kurt Weiske!

** On Monday 24.03.25 - 07:11, Kurt Weiske wrote to Rob Mccart:

There's a series of books by William Hertling about an AI
being developed - it came out about 10 years ago. I should
re-read them and see how it aged.

Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears
(Singularity #1) (English)
Hertling, William 9780984755707
Liquididea Press 11/19/2011 $14.95

A.I. Apocalypse (Singularity #2) (English)
Hertling, William 9780984755745
Liquididea Press 05/24/2012 $13.95

The Last Firewall (Singularity #3) (English)
Hertling, William 9780984755769
Liquididea Press 08/05/2013 $13.95

The Turing Exception (Singularity #4) (English)
Hertling, William 9781942097013
Liquididea Press 03/05/2015

Sound interesting.. especially since the author seems to have a
technical background..

"A fifteen year veteran of the technology industry, he holds
ten patents on software and internet technology, developed web
and social media strategy at Hewlett-Packard, and is a frequent
speaker at SXSW Interactive. He's been building online
communities since 1986 when he ran seven phones lines into the
back of his Apple //e to create an online chat system. An
active blogger since 2002, his website, williamhertling.com,
receives more than 50,000 visitors a year."

The last AI-related novel about runaway-AI was:

Daniel Suarez's Daemon and Freedom(TM),

..those two were not bad a bad journey, but the premise of
fully autonous/invincible androids and vehicles seemed a bit
far-fetched.

I bought the first three books in the series, and now there's a fourth. I'm leery to buy it on Amazon, as they've taken away the ability to download ebooks from the web site.

Download is still possible, but only to Kindles directly or
readable with their online app.

I just revisted the options for one of their ebooks. I don't
like it. It seems that you can only access the material with
their "1-Click" ..and that automatically charges your credit
card and does not provide an option to confirm your selection
or back out! I had to go through the RETURN process inorder
to get my credit card refunded.

I was able to download all of my library and copy it into
Calibre - but don't know how to do that with future
purchases.

Yep.. I used to do the few Amazon ebooks did the same way. I
processed the file to Calibre and then moved it to my Kobo.

BTW.. for a more substantive read on AI, check out this:

The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think
the Way We Do | Paperback

Erik J Larson

Harvard University Press | Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

Computers / Artificial Intelligence / Artificial Intelligence - Natural Language Processing /
Technology & Engineering / Social Aspects
Published Oct 11, 2022
9780674278660



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August Abolins wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

Download is still possible, but only to Kindles directly or
readable with their online app.

Yes, but they recently removed the ability to download to a PC. I use
Calibre as an e-book manager, and want to be able to keep backups
available. I went through the laborious process of downloading my
ebooks to date before the cutoff. For any new books, I'd need to use an
old version of Kindle for PC that still had the feature, then search
for the new book in the content directory (they're not intuitively
named)



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