Gmail Lab is the hub of incremental innovation and the newly launched module (rather, the improved version) of Google search box makes Gmail a lot more productive and collaborative tool.
Once you enable the module, you can search Google from your Gmail – the real fun begins once you fire a query.
Gmail will open a new window (overlay) displaying the search result. Hover on any of the result and the dropdown will enable you to share the search result/URLs within the mail itself.
Typical use case that this feature targets is when you need to send search result(s) to your friends and rely on copy/pasting from web search – essentially this small window makes life easier and simpler (i.e. improves productive).
These are collaborative features/incremental innovation which makes Gmail a far more productive email client than other plain jane webmail products.
What’s your take? What are your favorite Lab products?
Tell me a reason why would you move to any other email client?
i think Google search box can be a pretty useful tool…sending link via email is good…can it be entered into an open chat window?
I also like Mail Goggles and Offline feature
Other things which I would like to have, which may already be there, are a message reading pane and an indication when a new mail comes, probably a sound like when someone pings…
I’m a big fan of Evolution as a desktop client, it’s open source, and whatever you might say about the versatility of gmail, you can’t beat the ability to program changes into your client yourself.