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Gmail – A Fifteen Year Old April Fool’s Joke

April 2, 2019

Believe it or not, Gmail started out as an April fool’s joke fifteen years ago. As we all know today, it is not a joke. To celebrate the birthday, the Gmail team announced a couple of new and useful Gmail features, including improvements to Smart Compose and the ability to schedule emails to be sent in the future. Smart Compose is a feature that “learns” and suggests text to use as content or subject line. As TechCrunch reported, “Smart Compose, which tries to autocomplete your emails as you type them, will now be able to adapt to the way you write the greetings in your emails. If you prefer “Hey” over “Hi,” then Smart Compose will learn that. If you often fret over which subject to use for your emails, then there’s some relief here for you, too, because Smart Compose can now suggest a subject line based on the content of your email.”

Our friend and colleague, Bob Ambrogi, posted the results of his testing the Smart Compose feature. Bob concentrated on how well Smart Compose suggests adding legal language to your content as you type. There are some interesting results that surfaced during his tests. I particularly liked the suggested language of “further your affiant sayeth naught.” Boy, have I seen that far too often.

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