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Google Begins To Merge Google+, Gmail Contacts

Posted by samzenpus on from the make-it-one dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google today announced new integration between Gmail and Google+ that sees your social connections show up in auto-complete when you're composing an email. Google says the feature is rolling out "over the next couple of days" to everyone that uses Gmail and Google+."

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  1. Great.... by olsmeister · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Spam City, here we come. Why is this opt-out instead of opt-in? Because nobody would want it.

    1. Re:Great.... by JDG1980 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Google+: Google's third failure of a social network that nobody wants but Google is going to push by forcing integration with their popular services such as YouTube and Gmail.

      This is the kind of thing that antitrust laws are supposed to stop. Unfortunately, we don't do antitrust enforcement in the U.S. any more, at least not in any meaningful sense.

    2. Re:Great.... by Rob+the+Bold · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Google+: Google's third failure of a social network that nobody wants but Google is going to push by forcing integration with their popular services such as YouTube and Gmail.

      This is the kind of thing that antitrust laws are supposed to stop. Unfortunately, we don't do antitrust enforcement in the U.S. any more, at least not in any meaningful sense.

      I don't like Google integrating its other -- more useful or popular -- services like YouTube GMail with Google+, but where's the antitrust angle to that?

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    3. Re:Great.... by Dachannien · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Why is this opt-out instead of opt-in? Because nobody would want it.

      Oh, wait, you're talking about Google. For a second there, I thought you were talking about Slashdot Beta.

    4. Re:Great.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Obviously, since Google is the only company providing Google+ and Gmail.

      Your pedantry aside, they are dominant in the areas of email and video sharing which are the places they are forcing Google+ integration.

    5. Re:Great.... by swillden · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Spam City, here we come.

      Do you circle a lot of people who will spam you?

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  2. Easy enough to disable by barlevg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Though the obvious response is, "for now."

  3. Re:bad bad idea by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You aren't actually forced to use G+

    Most Slashdotters aren't actually forced to do much of anything, but that doesn't stop them from bitching about just about everything.

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  4. I only want to use GMail. Don't want Google+ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just give me GMail.

    Why is it so hard for Google to give me something I want and not something that I don't want?

    Or is this part of Google's plans to increase their Google+ numbers by forcing everyone with GMail to become part of Google+?

    Give it a break Google.

    You were cool.

    But now you're becoming annoying.

  5. G+ is not market dominant... by tlambert · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If G+ was market dominant, the argument could be made that by showing completions only from google services was anticompetitive.

    G+ is not market dominant... even among Google employees.

    1. Re:G+ is not market dominant... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      They used to. Image search was quite nice for a quick and high quality porn fix. Then Google decided to replace "Save Search" with some fucked up "we'll detect if you want to see porn" setting which tends to find lower quality porn then before.

      Google is getting worse every year.

  6. Re:I'm about to give up on Gmail... by xeno · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This.

    I have my own domain and a small rack in the basement, with mail I haven't used much in a while.. but this G+ stupidity might just roust me out of my slumber. I've stayed with Gmail out of inertia mostly; the handy features just barely outweigh the irritation. But it's really, really close. The Gmail interface changes from a year ago still suck. Badly. Google+ is an irritating solution to a problem I don't have, and becoming terribly intrusive. Youtube integration is actively conterproductive, a constant intrusion of personal browsing into potential business activity. When I log into gmail and open up a youtube tab, it constatntly pops up a link to some warplane videos I watched a year ago. So... I can't browse youtube because if I use gmail to communicate with clients for moonlighting gigs, because those who use g+ might see that and think I'm a nut? No thanks.)

    Gmail is a handy web interface to email functions I had thru IMAP a decade ago, nothing more. I could easily switch back. Better yet, I could update the whole mess and run it in a couple of VMs at AWS for pennies a day.

    I hesitate because Google docs is handy for helping my kids on their school reports, annotating, correcting, making suggestions as they work on it.. but really it's a nice-to-have. I would miss it, but if the price for docs is forced use of Google+, it's not worth the hassle.

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  7. Re: Great by Monoman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mistakenly use the wrong account ONE time and you probably won't be able to undo the mess it will cause. I didn't like it when my "smart" phone linked my contacts and social apps and I don't like the idea of G+,FB, etc doing things auto-magically for me either.

    This crap is just chasing me away from Gmail and G+.

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  8. Re: Great by AvitarX · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's plenty of things on YouTube that I would be embarassed for the world to know I saw I'm sure. Tame or not.

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