Better check twice before firing off that email today: You could be sending it to the wrong person, thanks to a Gmail bug that is suggesting email addresses you rarely communicate with, instead of the people you correspond with most often.
This Gmail email address autocomplete bug is killing me. Is Google’s new social strategy to have me email people I don’t remember?
The incipient malevolent human-murdering AI inside GMail just autocompleted an address I've emailed once over one I've emailed 10,000 times.
The problem seems to be widespread — just this morning, Gigaom’s tips email address (news@gigaom.com, send us stories) was inexplicably CC’d on a email thread on which editors of another site were discussing the most embarrassing moments from last night’s Oscars.
Until it gets fixed, you might want to consider turning on the undo send feature in Gmail labs.
This is way too funny. Though, it can’t happen if you double check before sending. I know it’s time consuming (a few seconds), but it’s better to waste 2 seconds and not make a mistake. Didn’t notice this though because i always check everything before sending.
For a free product there are 2 options: Use it without complaining or Move on!
It’s a fair point. However, many companies, including mine actually send Google money to support email services so we do get to complain and feel very smug about it too!
I am personally paying for gmail with my data and browsing habits, which I don’t mind them doing at all; I signed up for that. What I did not sign up for, and something that is not covered in their TOS, was mangled emails.
Some folks at google probably noticed that auto-complete was driving us into ruts of robotic repetition and no further knowledge was being created. If someone else searched for something, that must be what I want to search for too. There, got that answer for you in the cache. Then, maybe someone figured the same thing was happening with our personal communication, and that we should be encouraged to diversify our circles of communication, or we would soon find ourselves trapped in repetitive exchanges with only a handful of auto completions.