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Google is rolling out a significant update to its email service, Gmail. The company announced on Thursday that it will now use artificial intelligence (AI) to consider factors like recency, most-clicked emails, and frequent contacts when surfacing emails based on your search query.
Up until now, Gmail has simply displayed emails in chronological order based on keywords. With this update, the emails you’re looking for are far more likely to be at the top of your search results, saving you valuable time and helping you find important information more easily.
As part of this new update, Google is also introducing a toggle so people can switch between “Most relevant” or “Most recent” emails on a search results page. This toggle is aimed at users who prefer seeing search results displayed in chronological order, rather than the new “Most relevant” default option.
The update is rolling out globally for users with personal Google accounts and is available on the web and in the Gmail app for Android and iOS. Google plans to expand the feature to business users in the future.
It’s worth noting that this change comes as Google has been building out its email offering to better compete with Apple’s Mail app, which got a slew of Gmail-like features with iOS 18 last year.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/20/gmails-new-ai-search-now-sorts-emails-by-relevance-instead-of-chronological-order/
