Marking the online e-mail service’s fifth birthday, Google announced it is going global with its Gmail Labs box of quirky functions it launched last year in English.
Google originally announced the service on 1 April 2004, and some in the industry thought that the whole thing was an April Fool’s Day hoax. Since then it has grown to become one of the most popular webmail services around.
Gmail Labs will now be available internationally in 49 languages. Currently Google is supporting five Indian languages - Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam, and businesses and schools using Google Apps should see this in the coming weeks.
If you’re in India, this feature is enabled by default. If not, you’ll need to turn it on in the “Language” section under Settings. Once enabled, just click the Indian languages icon and type words in the way they sound in English — Gmail will automatically convert them to their Indian language equivalent.
New features include undo send, a way of retracting an e-mail up to five seconds after you hit the send button; mail goggles, which makes you solve some math questions before sending a message, to make it harder to send messages while inebriated; and a forgotten attachment reminder, which reminds you to attach a file if you mention one in your message.
Gmail has continued to extend its reach beyond its core consumer market and gain traction among corporate customers.
Earlier this month, software technology vendor HashPro Technologies announced that it migrated over 100 of its email users of the firm and it different subsidiaries from Outlook to Gmail in just a few hours, in order to save costs and improve the productivity of its staff.
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