Gmail Is Now Using AI to Sort 'More Relevant' Results, But You Can Turn It Off (lifehacker.com)
from return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 24 Mar 21:43
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Engywuck@lemm.ee on 24 Mar 22:05 next collapse

I would, but unfortunately I don’t use Gmail

Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io on 24 Mar 22:08 collapse

I would estimate that as Most Fortunate.

WanderingShadow@lemmy.world on 24 Mar 22:16 next collapse

I “turned off” gmail entirely instead. I don’t want AI sorting my results, or reading my emails to tell me what to write in reply.

Empricorn@feddit.nl on 24 Mar 22:33 next collapse

Yeah. You can turn it off. For now…

terminhell@lemmy.world on 25 Mar 00:07 collapse

Not no, it will then hallucinate entire emails just to have something show

empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 24 Mar 22:44 next collapse

If Email is ever sorted in any order other than purely Chronological, it is a deadly affront to humanity. Even the “sponsored” two emails at the top of Gmail is an insult.

eager_eagle@lemmy.world on 25 Mar 00:03 next collapse

nah, results sorted chronologically are the reason I can never find anything in my email in my first attempts. I always need to think of other terms to include in the search to eliminate all the hay that comes in the results.

JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world on 25 Mar 01:37 next collapse

This is why we developed the tagging system

eager_eagle@lemmy.world on 25 Mar 16:37 collapse

As in adding labels to each email? I gave it up years ago for taking too much effort. It’s also a half measure when it comes to achieving better search results.

JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world on 25 Mar 20:38 collapse

You know you can automate it right? Like long before the advent of AI we’ve been able to automatically tag things based off their content/source/whatever you want really.

Ulrich@feddit.org on 25 Mar 03:02 collapse

Unfortunately Gmail’s search is also completely fucking broken.

pdxfed@lemmy.world on 25 Mar 03:43 next collapse

The feature no one asked for in Outlook chapter 1. “Relevant” section out right at the top of the chronological list in case you didn’t want to immediately see the keywords you searched for in descending order but instead preferred completely unrelated attachments from Janice in Finance.

FireWire400@lemmy.world on 25 Mar 22:00 collapse

How can an email be “sponsored”?

empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 28 Mar 18:29 collapse

That’s a really good question, you’d have to ask Google about that one.

stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca on 25 Mar 00:08 next collapse

I don’t see how this could be worse than the current Gmail search. I have to use the sync tool to Outlook for my work email because outlook’s search is so much better.

Kushan@lemmy.world on 25 Mar 08:53 collapse

Came here to say this, Gmail search has been basically broken for me for years. The preview suggestions when typing in a search query have been more accurate for me than the actual search.

I have a couple of old emails from 2020 that always appear in search results no matter what I search for.

slaacaa@lemmy.world on 25 Mar 07:00 collapse

For me it has been this way on mobile and tablet for at least a year, and I didn’t find a way to turn it off. It gives the results in a completely random order, making older things impossible to find.

Multiple times, I had to sit down in front of a computer to find few months old emails.

Absolute garbage.

smiletolerantly@awful.systems on 25 Mar 08:59 collapse

Thunderbird for mobile is great! And in contrast to the gmail app, search actually works, lol

AtariDump@lemmy.world on 25 Mar 16:59 collapse

Great! Got an iOS link?

smiletolerantly@awful.systems on 25 Mar 17:02 collapse

Fair… Sorry, I always forget how prominent Apple devices are in the US.