So gmail has got itself a brand spanking new priority inbox. Google promises us that aside from your regular inbox, this one will hold emails that are 'priority'. They calculate this based on emails you read, emails you mark as important and emails you reply to. The theory being, the more you use it, the better it should become at sifting through your mail.



Get ready to see some strange gobbledegook web addresses. At least if you don't speak Arabic. Web addresses will now be available in Arabic in what is being heralded as a major achievement in opening up the web to non-English/Latin scripts.
With the news that Google has launched a social search feature (available in Google Labs) thought I'd point out the usefulness of social networks and google in general: