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Sunday, 10 February 2008

We have some exciting changes in store for Gmail and Google Talk this

week. If you haven't seen the latest changes you Gmail, you can read

about them on Jon's post to the Google Blog. The features will be

appearing in Gmail accounts starting today.

With these changes you can chat directly from the Gmail interface.

Just click on the chat button next to your friend's name and you'll be

IMing just like in Google Talk. No need to switch away from Gmail, it

just happens right in the same place. Give it a shot!

Another change for both Google Talk and Gmail is the ability to save

chat histories. Google Talk users have been asking for a feature that

lets them save chat histories, and now we have it.

But, just saving wouldn't be good enough. Chat histories are a lot

more useful if you can search them and organize them--things that make

chat more efficient and powerful, and more like email. So starting

today, check out the new "Chats" link on the left-hand side of the

Gmail screen--you'll see your chats there (if you choose to save chat

histories of course - it's your choice). They will appear almost

instantly, and they're displayed in a way that makes it really easy to

read through your chat conversation. And, when you do a search in

Gmail, it searches over your saved chats as well. Remember an

important address from a conversation you had last week? No? Just

search for it!

We hope you find both these changes useful.

Bob Day

Software Engineer

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