Gmail Makes Changes to Contacts

February 12, 2009

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Gmail Makes Changes to Contacts

Google has contact merge." This is a basic but useful addition, which simply merges the contact information for one person from varying sources. For example, if my friend Rafael used his Gmail account, his Yahoo account, and his Hotmail account on separate occasions to contact me, they could now all be merged into one set of contact information for him, whereas before they would have remained separate.To utilize this feature, just select the contacts you want to merge and click "merge these..." as showing in this image:

The second change is that instead of "Suggested Contacts," you'll now get a group called "All Contacts." If you prefer "suggested," you can still get to that list by clicking the "view suggestions" button while you're in "My Conacts."

. The fourth one is that you can search across all your contact fields. This is a long-overdue feature, and evidently many others agreed and frequently requested it. So basically, now you can search phone numbers, notes, mailing addresses, names, and email addresses.

These changes have got to be part of Gmail's strategy to enhance user experience and ultimately grow its user base. It is doing a pretty good job of that so far. not that Yahoo seems worried about this).

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