Google Upgrades Gmail With New Features

From DailyTech: Google Labs, the research and development branch at Google, is always dreaming up wild and intuitive new services and improved versions of existing ones. Typically those efforts are rolled into existing projects, or even occasionally released wholesale as a new service.

Gmail just received its second major Labs-inspired upgrade in the last couple weeks, following the rocky addition of Google Buzz.

The new upgrade introduces six Labs features. The first is the addition of autocomplete to the search bar. The search bar will now automatically fill in email addresses or subject lines when you start typing in the search bar. It also allows users to search using Google's labeling system. The search upgrade currently only works in English.

Another useful feature is the forgotten attachment detector. If you type a phrase such as "I've attached" or "attachments included" in your email and there's no attachments, it prompts you whether you want to add the forgotten attachment before sending the message. That should save some embarrassing second emails

For those sending URLs, another improvement is the inclusion of a YouTube preview service, which converts URL's in Gmail messages to mini YouTube players. Similar previews for Flickr and Picasa were not included in this update, but can still be found in Google Labs. The Flickr preview reportedly works sporadically.

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