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B: Just after finishing his daily, oops, double daily, oops, make it a
tripple daily ‘kriya yoga’ exercise. Read: taking a not so short nap.
“What’s it A? Not another of your ever increasing, oops, ever
intriguing problem, is it? Just go away and leave me alone.”

A: ” Sorry, Boss. Pardon my French, Boss, silli vous play. Not a
problem. This time we have an idea.”

B: “Why A, that’s an improvement. Who are we, I mean you and I kind
two wes, oops, wicked wes?”

A: “Boss, you crack me up.”

Ho, Ho, Ho and double Ho-Hos later. “No boss, I mean ‘we’ as in an
editorial we, first person singular pronoun.”

B: “Stop that grammar, oops, gammatical, oops, grammatical-dramatical
hocus pocus. You, A, ain’t no Panini, the famous Sanskrit grammarian.
Oops, add to that, famous Panini and Patanjali Sanskrit grammarians
and Lexicographers.”

“They wrote and rewrote several ‘ghantus and nighantus’” Sanskrit
words for word lists and expanded word lists respectively.
“Altogether, they wrote several famous ghantus and nighantus.”

A: “Boss, your knowledge about words, oops, ‘ghantus and nighantus’
excites me. I love all those Sanskrit ‘ghantus and nighantus.’ As a
matter of fact, I am going to buy all those strange, oops, strange and
sexy Sanskrit words. I love Sanskrit and anything and everything about
Sanskrit. So help me God.”

B: “A, gaddhe, Nobody loves no Sanskrit. For godssake, Sanskrit is a
dead language. Nobody who is anybody speaks it, nor do they read and
write it, oops, all except some crazy Hindu Brahmin, oops, make it
crazy American ‘firangi’ and some more Canadian crazy Sanskritists.”

A: ” For instance, which American crazy of all American crazies
speaks, reads and writes Sanskrit, Boss?”

B: “Why, oops, those goddamned lights gone again.”

The End

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B: Superbly angree at A for disturbing his ‘karma yoga’ oops karma
cola, oops, ‘karma, karma, karma camelia song,’

“keep on trucking, A. I have enough of your crazy ideas for a day.
Just go away and let me practice my karma…..camelia song duet with
Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle.”

A: ” Boss, it is very important. This is real emergency. The mother of
all emergencies. make it the grand mother, oops, Google grandmother’s
emergency. It can’t wait.”

B: “OK, chela, the best chela I got after Shivaji Maharaj, who was a
selected chela of Ramdas swamy, a Brahmin saint from Nashik, my
hometown, oops, Takli, a sleeping village by the holy river Godavari,
aka Gautami, aka Ganga.”

A: “Thanks, Boss. This extremely, very exraordinary emergency is
created at Google’s ‘G-mail account. The all knowing, omnipresent al
Google are facing tremendous pressure with tons and mega tons of
incoming G-mails. So much so that it, the facility is being jammed,
make it chakka jammed.

Finally, Google boys have found a solutuin for that bottleneck. They
are going to sort your, I mean our incoming G-mail into four
categories. That way the pressure will be divided.”

B: ” You mean Google is getting into Divide and Conquer games?”

A: ” No Boss. They ain’t not dividing nor ain’t they conquering
nobody, as yet. They are just fooling around with our valuable,
voluminous, tremendous G-mal. Rascals.”

B: “oops…..”

The End
Google’s priority inbox aims to conquer e-mail overload

By Maggie Shiels

Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley

Priority Inbox will roll out to Gmail users in September Google has
updated Gmail with a feature that aims to reduce information overload
in e-mail inboxes.

Called priority inbox it automatically grades e-mail into four
categories: important, important and unread, starred items and
everything else.

Experts believe less time sifting through e-mail will make people more
productive.

Google said the product acts like your “personal assistant helping you
focus on the messages that matter”.

“There are a lot of signals in any message that indicate importance,”
Keith Coleman, Gmail director told BBC News.

“Basic indicators include if this message is from someone you write to
a lot or reply to a lot. Another category is terms – if the word
Viagra is in the message, it is indicative of junk mail. And a third
factor is something known as static features. That is if the message
has been sent to you directly or to you and other people or a list of
people.”

Google said the feature “gets smarter” the more a user uses it as it
learns what is important to an individual. There is a plus or minus
tool within the feature to boost or reduce the priority status of a
message. This allows the product to learn which electronic
communications matter more than others.

“Our hope is that people can regain time and attention and not feel
the need to constantly check e-mail in the middle of meetings,” said
Mr Coleman.

“We want people to walk away from e-mail and focus on what they are
doing at that moment like thinking or reading, spending time with the
family or taking part in a meeting. We hope this gives people a little
more sanity and physical time in their day.”

Information overload

Various studies have shown that people are being weighed down by the
number of e-mails flowing into their inboxes.

The Radicati Group has said that in 2010, 294 billion e-mails are sent
each day with the typical corporate user sending and receiving about
110 messages a day.

The new priority inbox is optional Hi-tech giant Intel estimated back
in 2007 that the impact of information overload at up to eight hours a
week.

Douglas Merrill understands the problem all too well.

The former chief information officer at Google is the author of
“Getting organised in the Google Era” and lectures on the topics of
organisation, innovation and information technology.

“E-mail is a great tool, but also a key contributor to overload. There
are about 1.5 billion mail users worldwide, and almost 1 million (non-
spam) e-mails sent each second. That works out at roughly 250Gb of
mail per second, which is the equivalent of 2,000 hardcover books.

“That’s a lot of mail. You can’t possibly read or process it all. You
will stress your brain beyond capacity,” Mr Merrill told the BBC.

Google worked onthe product internally for about 18 months and tested
it on its own employees in a process known as “dog fooding”. Early
results were encouraging said Google’s Mr Coleman.

“We have seen people who use priority inbox spend 13% less time
reading unimportant e-mail. That adds up to a week a year. Even with
that rough measurement people are gaining back a significant amount of
time in the day which was being lost trawling through e-mail.

“One of the biggest changes we have seen is people walking away and
leaving their inbox and just not worrying about it as much because
everything is marked and it’s easy to see the important stuff,” said
Mr Coleman.

Google is not alone in trying to solve this problem. Microsoft has
updated its Hotmail e-mail system to help people organise messages
better. Also stand-alone products such as Xobni and Liaise take a
similar approach to that adopted by Google.

Priority Inbox will roll out to Gmail’s 180m users over the coming
days

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Do you trust Google to sort your email? It starts today

Users of Google’s email service may notice something different about
Gmail over the next few days. That’s because the company is rolling
out the new Gmail Priority Inbox feature. Conceptually, think of it
like Gmail’s spam filter, just in reverse.

In fact, just like the spam section in Gmail, priority messages will
now be filtered into their own area. It’s unclear whether or not
they’ll show up in your regular list as well — though we imagine they
will.

So, how does Google’s service decide? It’s based on a surprising
number of things, actually, including how often you read an email from
a sender, how often and quickly you reply, the kind of keywords that
Gmail determines interests you, and even if it’s plainly deemed
important, such as a flight reservation. If you find that Gmail is
missing the mark, you can help out the system by manually marking a
message as more or less important.

So, does this sound like the kind of thing that will revolutionize
your email experience? Honestly, I open every email I get and
regularly clear out my spam. For me, personally, this sounds like a
section of Gmail that I’ll never bother with, but I guess I’ll have to
wait and see.

Google adds ‘priority inbox’ to Gmail

New feature aims to automatically prioritise important emails to help
people manage the deluge of messages they receive every day

By Claudine Beaumont, Technology Editor
Published: 11:01AM BST 31 Aug 2010

3 Comments

Google has launched a ‘priority inbox’ feature for Gmail to help
people manage the email deluge more easily Google has launched a new
‘priority inbox’ service for its web-based email service, Gmail. The
search giant has developed a complex set of algorithms that can
analyse a user’s email behaviour, and rank emails depending on their
perceived importance.

Users who switch on the priority inbox function will see their
messages separated in to three categories, with emails deemed
important and unread bumped to the top of the inbox. Messages that
have been “starred” by users, perhaps as a way of denoting importance,
or something that they still need to action, will appear next, with
all other emails appearing at the bottom of the inbox pane.

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Remember by Nicholas Carr: review Google said that its email
algorithms analysed a variety of factors, including a user’s most
frequently emailed contacts, and the number of other people copied in
to the same message.

The search company also said that the content of the email was also
analysed to ascertain its importance. Google already “scans” emails to
deliver targeted advertising, and to filter out messages that could be
considered spam.

“Priority inbox is like your personal assistant, helping you focus on
the messages that matter without requiring you to set up complex
rules,” wrote Doug Aberdeen, a senior software engineer at Google, on
the company’s blog.

“Gmail has always been pretty good at filtering junk mail in to the
‘spam’ folder, but today, in addition to spam, people get a lot of
mail that isn’t outright junk but isn’t very important.”

Google said that its priority inbox feature would be rolled out across
all Gmail and Google Apps accounts over the next couple of weeks.
Gmail, which was launched in April 2004, stunned internet users by
offering an unprecedented 1GB of free email storage. The service now
has an estimated 146 million monthly users.

3 comments

NitroFan
0 seconds ago

I move all my email to Gmail about three months ago, but priority
mailbox? why, sorry but I do not see the point! I already know what
mail is important to me thanks to Google’s excellent spam filtering.

Personally I would like to see some useful functions like the ability
to justify text between the margins. The ability to mark mail unread
from a button. Report Recommend
fancydressman
49 minutes ago

2 people’Messages that have been “starred” by users, perhaps as a way
of donating importance’

How exactly do you “donate” importance? Perhaps Claudine Beaumont
means denoting importance? Or maybe she has just “donated” some of her
credibility as someone who knows what she is talking about? Report
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VictorMC
Today 11:31 AM

1 person Superb.
I have used G mail from day one and find them almost faultless.
Prior to that for nearly ten years I had various utterly useless and
expensive ISPs. So I’ve tried them all. If you add Google Chrome
browser and their Picasa pictures software – you have ‘cracked it.’

PS: I have no connection with Google whatever- I just find them
brilliant. Report Recommend Social Media Reactions

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