Google Offers Offline Access to Gmail

A quick check of the Gmail page will show that Google still considers its email offering to be in ‘beta’. Google will be adding a feature to this beta process. Gmail will have access offline:

“…Google ruled out the option of letting users replicate their entire Gmail inboxes to their PCs, which in many cases would translate into gigabytes of data flowing to people’s hard drives. It instead developed algorithms that will automatically determine which messages should be downloaded to PCs, taking into consideration a variety of factors that reflect their level of importance to the user, he said. At this point, end-users will not be able to tweak these settings manually.”

link: Google Delivers Offline Access for Gmail

This makes Gmail even more user friendly. However, it is also good marketing. Whether connected to the internet or not, Google wants to be a presence. It is another step towards becoming ubiquitous.

Catherine Forsythe