Google New Gmail, Google+ Update Adds Auto-Suggest Feature

Google Mail users can now send Google+ users e-mails without the need of knowing their addresses.

In a step to strengthen the integration between its two services, the Internet giant has incorporated an auto-suggest feature with Gmail and Google+ social.

Gmail is an advertising-supported electronic mail service provider, while Google+ is a social networking site and identity service with over 540 million monthly active users.

Through this integration, Google is one step closer to its time goal of making communication between its users easier and uncomplicated.

"Have you ever started typing an email to someone only to realize halfway through the draft that you haven't actually exchanged email addresses?" the company said in a blog post. "You're in luck, because now it's easier for people using Gmail and Google+ to connect over email."

Furthermore, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based American multinational corporation is also a step closer to wholly and deeply integrating Google+ with its services, Web application, and sites like YouTube, Blogger, and Apps so that it can act as a social, underlying social networking layer.

The new auto-suggest feature is designed to allow Gmail users to send e-mails to contacts suggested by Google+ while typing an address. Aside from that, Gmail will also suggest Google+ users that the user has added into his Circles on the platform.

“Circles” is the Google+ term for connections. It allows users to organize people into groups or lists for sharing across different Google products and services

However, if an accountholder doesn’t like the idea of the feature and wants to be in control of who can contact them, he can choose to include only those who are added to his Circles, extend it to people with a second degree of Circles, open up the feature to anyone on Google+, or opt out completely.

More so, e-mail senders will not get to see the email address of the suggested contact unless the recipient replies to the message. Replies of the Google+ contact will be directed to the sender’s Social tab and not in the Primary tab.

The innovative feature will be launched to all Gmail users with Google+ profiles in the next few days.