Business Insider
Google's mail service seems to have a bug in its auto-suggest feature that's causing a bunch of people to send messages to the wrong contacts. Instead of auto-completing to the most-used contact when people start typing a name into the "To" field, it seems to be prioritizing contacts that they communicate with less frequently.
New York City venture capitalist Fred Wilson just posted about the problem, writing that he got a bunch of emails yesterday that were clearly not meant for him, but people are complaining about it all over Twitter, too.
Gmail autocomplete fails today? It's serving up least used rather than most used as suggestions. Already emailed the wrong people twice.
- Chloe Albanesius (@ChloeAlbanesius) February 23, 2015has anyone else noticed that the autocomplete for addresses in gmail has gotten horrendously bad recently?
- Sam Altman (@sama) February 23, 2015Gmail address autocomplete is totally whacked out. I keep emailing the wrong Amanda when I want to email my assistant! How to fix?!?
- Ann Miura-Ko (@annimaniac) February 23, 2015This Gmail email address autocomplete bug is killing me. Is Google's new social strategy to have me email people I don't remember?
- Ryan Singel (@rsingel) February 23, 2015Hey @gmail PLEASE fix autocomplete for email addresses ASAP. This is causing so much inefficiency and errors when composing emails to ppl.
- Josh Kelley (@ImSeekingOrion) February 23, 2015We're aware of an issue with Gmail and auto-complete and are currently investigating. Apologies for any inconvenience.
- Gmail (@gmail) February 23, 2015