Google Mail Gets a "Mail Fetcher"

Google has announced a new innovative feature called "Mail Fetcher" that allows Gmail to fetch mail from any of the user's other non Gmail accounts.

Google has announced a new innovative feature called "Mail Fetcher" that allows Gmail to fetch mail from any of the user's other non Gmail accounts. 

With "Mail Fetcher," multiple email account users will find it easier and more convenient to manage all their mails from one place. 

The feature needs to be configured before use, and the user needs to follow a few simple steps: 

1) Click 'Settings' on any Gmail page 
2) Click 'Accounts' 
3) Click 'Add another mail account' in the 'Get mail from other 
accounts' section 
4) Enter full email address oPublish Postf the account/s to be accessed 

5) Click 'Next Step' 
6) Enter Password (Gmail will populate Username and POP Server fields 
when possible, based on email address) 
7) Decide on: leaving a copy of retrieved messages on the server; 
always using a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail; 
labeling incoming messages; and archiving incoming messages 
8) Click 'Add Account' 
9) Once the account has been added successfully, there is an option 
for setting it as a custom 'From Address' 

As of now, users can add up to 5 email accounts to their Gmail account. Meanwhile, there could be skepticism with respect to privacy issues while using this feature. 

Even More Recent Google Search Results

Ran Geva noticed that Google's date range restrictions have been extended and you can now find web pages indexed by Google less than one minute ago or even less than 10 seconds ago.

(Update. Google doesn't necessarily index web pages as soon as they're published, but the sites that use feeds or sitemaps are indexed pretty fast. With recent advancements like PubSubHubbub that provide real-time notifications for updates, the delay between publishing pages and finding them using Google will be further reduced.)

Click on "show options", select "past 24 hours" and tweak the URL by replacing "tbs=qdr:d" with "tbs=qdr:n" to find pages indexed in the past minute.

Example: a search for [Tiger Woods] restricted to almost real-time results.

The date restriction feature is quite flexible, but you need to know the syntax used by Google's URLs:

tbs=qdr:[name][value]

where [name] can be one of these values: s (second), n (minute), h (hour), d (day), w (week), m (month), y (year), while [value] is a number.

To find the web pages indexed less than 45 seconds ago that include the word "flu", use this URL:

http://www.google.com/search?q=flu&tbs=qdr:s45

Unfortunately, if you restrict the results to very recent web pages, Google shows a small sample and doesn't list all the results.

Update form Gmail blog.

Gmail Outage Challenges Google Engineers

San Francisco: A disruption to Google's Gmail service frustrated users throughout the world Tuesday and flummoxed engineers at the giant internet company.

Google said the problems started early in the morning and were not resolved until approximately 2330 GMT. 

The problem prevented users from accessing Google email and stymied customers who use the popular software to sync their information with the Microsoft Outlook email programme.

In Google's Gmail forum, users claiming to be in Italy, Germany, France and Taiwan, along with users from various states in the US, reported being unable to access Gmail.

The snafu increased concerns about the safety and integrity of online data as more computer users migrate to using popular internet services offered by the likes of Google, Facebook and Microsoft.

Google is the third-most popular online email service in the US after Yahoo and Microsoft's Hotmail. The service suffered outages in February and previously in April, August and October 2008. 

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