Gmail marks Google Alerts Mail as spam
By on August 19th, 2007

The spam filters of Gmail is one of the best of all the email providers and beats Yahoo and Hotmail outright but I do have to sometimes check my Spam folder for legitimate emails being filtered as Spam and have at times retrieved some emails from friends in the Spam folder.

Today while I was doing a routine check I came across a Google Alerts mail landing up in the spam folder.

google-alerts-spam

This is probably the first time I have ever seen a company marking their own service emails as spam.

Out of curiosity I opened the email to check why it had been marked as spam. On opening the email I saw some words marked as red which may have forced Google to mark the email as spam.

google-alerts-spam-inside

I would not be surprised now why Gmail has the best spam filtering in the webmail industry. Thanks to Gmail I really don’t have to go through all the spam in the inbox. How often do you check your Spam mails? Do let me know through your comments.

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  • http://thegivinghands.org pelf

    Sometimes advertisers need to be smart when writing their blurb too, heh?

  • http://www.whoismadhur.com Madhur Kapoor

    I dont like the Spam filter of gmail .Many times i find many of my important mails going there

    • http://www.spanishwritingtips.com/ Andrew

      Me too!! :(

  • http://www.sizzledcore.com Haris

    This the reason, why I always say that GMAIL IS THE BEST! :D

    But still, Gmail gets twisted sometimes and start sending spam to my inbox.

  • http://www.tech4dummies.net praveen

    I agree 100% with you, gmail has the best spam filter , while i was using yahoo mail i used to face with lot of spam, by using the gmail from the last 1 year i never faced the problem of spam

  • http://www.aaronhall.com/ Minnesota Attorney

    That is really strange. I am continually impressed by gmail’s spam filter, but I suppose some keywords in Google Alerts can trigger the algorithm to have strange results. thanks for the interesting post.

 
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