CNet: Would You Let Google Sort Your Mail?
The new Priority Inbox beta feature in Gmail offers to sort subscribers’ mail into three folders based on analysis of the way they handled similar mail in the past. It should unclutter mailboxes, but might it also cause you to miss important messages?
“Good news for Gmail users who are deluged by messages and overwhelmed by which ones to tackle first. Google on Monday night announced a new Gmail feature in beta called Priority Inbox, which sorts your incoming e-mail into three sections, ‘important and unread,’ ‘starred,’ and ‘everything else.’
Google software engineer Doug Aberdeen explained in a post on the company’s Gmail blog that the feature targets mail that isn’t outright spam ‘but isn’t very important.’ It separates the important stuff from the ‘bologna,’ or ‘bacn,’ he said.”