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Red Alert! Google warning errors persist in Gmail
While the more glaring problem of flagging the entire internet as untrustworthy was quickly resolved yesterday, it appears as though the Google bug hasn't been completely crushed underfoot.
I was originally tipped off by our own Christina Clark, who advised our team to check the spam folder for incorrectly flagged messages. Lo and behold, several tips from our loyal readers had been erroneously shuffled in amongst the Viagra ads and messages from hot girls who want to chat with me now.
Not content with crying wolf over reader emails, the Gmail error has spread to our own internal distribution list: even though every contact in the message appears in my address book. This has been going on since yesterday, so it's either not as widespread as the search issue or just not as important. I'd wager the answer is a combination of the two. Google would likely prioritize a few million falsely blackballed search results over a few hundred thousand email messages.
Clarification: the issue does not just cause messages to go into your spam folder. As in the screenshot, it also incorrectly flags some incoming messages as potentially dangerous.
I was originally tipped off by our own Christina Clark, who advised our team to check the spam folder for incorrectly flagged messages. Lo and behold, several tips from our loyal readers had been erroneously shuffled in amongst the Viagra ads and messages from hot girls who want to chat with me now.
Not content with crying wolf over reader emails, the Gmail error has spread to our own internal distribution list: even though every contact in the message appears in my address book. This has been going on since yesterday, so it's either not as widespread as the search issue or just not as important. I'd wager the answer is a combination of the two. Google would likely prioritize a few million falsely blackballed search results over a few hundred thousand email messages.
Clarification: the issue does not just cause messages to go into your spam folder. As in the screenshot, it also incorrectly flags some incoming messages as potentially dangerous.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
a|e§ said 10:36AM on 2-01-2009
OMG, I think I need to check my spam folder.
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Seonwoo Lee said 10:54AM on 2-01-2009
The Gmail blog said something about this: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-mornings-spam-filter-issue.html. They will automatically move those that wouldn't have been marked as spam back to your inbox soon.
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Alex McKee said 10:57AM on 2-01-2009
This is totally not cool. I had an email I was waiting for in my spam. This is an issue Google, sort it out! It's not like I can do anything about it though. Gmail's still "beta".
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MIchele said 11:40AM on 2-01-2009
This is happening to me since months. All the Google Alerts im subscribed to are regularly marked as spam from Gmail. Yes, Google marks as untrusted its own mail.
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adedip said 12:30PM on 2-01-2009
maybe it's too late..my spam folder got empty few hours ago... :S
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Sango said 12:53PM on 2-01-2009
Although I like most of their products, I always feared putting our emails in their hand for this kind of behaviors plus technically, it is still beta after so much time, and has close to no support.
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alex_dlc said 1:26PM on 2-01-2009
why is gmail still beta?
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conor said 2:00PM on 2-01-2009
Because of things like this.
hyanez01 said 4:05PM on 3-01-2009
I CANNOT ATTACH ANY FILES IN GMAIL...!!! IT STOPS AT 75% COMPLETION!
Any ideas???? please...
Thanks,
Hector
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hyanez01 said 4:09PM on 3-01-2009
By desperation, I went to the older version...and IT WORKED!!!
I don't know what is happening, but so you know.
Hector
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