Two days back, Google has announced two new tweaks to Gmail which inludes deeper integration with Google+.
Now Gmail shows profile photos of your friends and contacts at the top of your inbox. These changes also allows users to quick access to contact details of friends when viewing past conversations.
When you will search for an email address in your Gmail, it will also show contact details of the person with profile pic just above the emails sent and received. You can directly start chat, send SMS, call to their phone or compose email from here.
If you select circles in Gmail, you will see profile pics of people in your circles and all the emails with these people. When you click on these images you’ll be taken directly to search results with contact details.
Circles are also now supported in search and filters. Find messages from a specific circle by typing circle:[circle name] in the search box. You can also find mail from any of your circled contacts by searching with has:circle. You can refine your search even further with other criteria and create filters based on circles. This means you can now view all the unread emails from your ‘Friends’ circle or automatically star every message that comes from your ‘VIP’ circle.
