Friday, January 25, 2013

Google retracts Gmail’s new ‘Quote selected text’ feature and puts it back …

<p>Last month, Google graduated three Gmail Labs features: "Send and archive," "Default reply to all," and "Quote selected text." Exactly 50 days later, Google has decided to retract the last one, pulling it away from Gmail.</p><p>Here's Google's explanation:</p><p>We've been listening to user feedback since the graduation and have decided to move the feature back into Gmail Labs. Users sometimes unintentionally quoted text they had inadvertently selected, which caused some confusion.</p><p>To those of you who like the feature, Google says you can still enable it in Gmail Labs. "Quote selected text" lets you highlight text and hit the reply button, automatically taking the quoted text and inserting it into your reply email.</p><p><a href="http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/01/25/google-retracts-gmails-new-quote-selected-text-feature-and-puts-it-back-into-labs-after-50-days/">Keep reading...</a></p>

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