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| » 14 May 2009 |
| Gmail Feature Encourages Users to Switch |
| Before, it was nearly impossible for long-time America Online (AOL) users to move their contacts and email archive to a new non-AOL account. It was either you abandon your account and start anew with a better one or manually move contacts and messages to your new account. For many people, going through such a hassle to move and switch services is too much effort to bother with in the first place. Not surprisingly, search engine giant Google has raised its powers of persuasion to new heights by introducing a handy Gmail feature this Wednesday. Hopefully, the innovative service should be enough to convince stubborn consumers to finally make the switch by making their eventual Google migration all the more effortless. Gmail now has a useful service that moves address books and email archives from other providers—which includes Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, and a few other email services—automatically. With this feature, you'll be able to peruse with your new Gmail account all those hundreds, even thousands, of old emaiis you've amassed throughout the years and keep in touch with your past contacts. Gmail's new migration feature lets you have your archived messages from other email accounts forwarded for 30 days, which gives you enough time to notify those on your address book about your new Gmail address. You can even use the feature to check back on your old account once in a while in case an old acquaintance decides to write you an email long after you both lost touch with each other. You don't even need to install software just to extract your messages for your Gmail migration, which has a tendency to greatly bog down your computer and Internet connection performance. All you need to do is go to the website, log-in with your email address and password, and let Gmail handle the rest of the job. The feature does have its limitations. Chad Parry, a Gmail engineer, clarifies that the new service is only available for newly created Gmail accounts. Hopefully, in just a matter of months or even days, it will be accessible to all existing Gmail accounts old and new. Just regularly check to see if you've gained an "Accounts and Import" tab under the "Settings" category of your account if you're already a long-time Gmail user. Furthermore, the new migration service isn't available for businesses and schools using Google Apps. Only entities whose email addresses end in gmail.com instead of their own domain can avail of this particular benefit. Nevertheless, after everything is said and done, this is a pretty nifty feature that could help Google win over more subscribers to its Gmail service. |
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