Google Contacts gets an update; aims to merge Gmail, Google+

[mmadhankumar]

Google Contacts is now receiving an update. The company has released a preview of the new Google Contacts, which aims to simplify the service. The service will bring together, all your contacts, circles, and most frequently-contacted users in Gmail which will make it easy to find friends or family members.

According to Gmail’s official blog, the new features include integrated calendar and email interface that allows users to see email exchanges and calendar appointments. It has also added a new ‘Find Duplicates’ feature, which eradicates all duplicate contacts and also asks the user if they would like to merge them together.

“The new Google Contacts comes with a fresh look and feel, and conveniently pools together all your contacts, circles, and the people you talk to most in Gmail,” Google writes in their blog post. The new update will now keep your contacts up-to-date by pulling information from users’ Google+ profiles. This feature makes it easy to stay well informed if a person has changed job, city or so on. Also, when a user clicks on a contact, it brings up the recent chat history, emails and meetings.

The update will begin rolling out in the coming weeks. However, it will not be immediately available to Google App customers. Though the company says it is “working on it.”


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