Created by Paul Buchheit on April 1, 2004, Gmail that started with an initial storage capacity of 1 gigabyte per user has gone on to become one of Google’s most successful products.
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Gmail, Google’s email service, has turned 15 today. Created by Paul Buchheit on April 1, 2004, Gmail that started with an initial storage capacity of 1 gigabyte per user has gone on to become one of Google’s most successful products.
Gmail offers 15 GB storage today. Users can receive emails up to 50 MB in size including attachments, while they can send emails up to 25 MB. For larger files, Google drive is an option.
A year after Gmail, the company launched Google Maps, before bringing Android and YouTube. All of these products have more than a billion users each with Gmail celebrating its 15th birthday with 1.5 billion monthly users.
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To celebrate the day, Google has announced new and useful Gmail features, including improvements to Smart Compose and the ability to schedule emails to be sent in future.
Smart Compose, which helps auto complete emails when they are being typed will now be able to adapt your greetings style( Hi, Hello, Greetings) and subject( subject in email) according to your writing style. Smart Compose is now available on all Android devices and iOS support is coming soon. The service will also be coming with four new languages: Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese.
Email scheduling is another highlight with the send button having a drop-down menu that will help schedule the email, whenever it needs to be send. Until now email scheduling was done with the help of other third party services, but now it has directly been integrated into the email service.
In a statement issued on Monday, Google sought to associate this feature with digital wellness. Jacob Bank, Director of Product Managemnet, G Suite, wrote, “We understand that work can often carry over to non-business hours, but it’s important to be considerate of everyone’s downtime.”
“We want to make it easier to respect everyone’s digital well-being, so we’re adding a new feature to Gmail that allows you to choose when an email should be sent,” he added.
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