Google Mail Goggles Begats Undo Send

Written by Thomas Trumble
Posted in Email on March 27th, 2009

Saving the world from drunken emails last year Google launched Mail Goggles that was an after hours hurdle to sending inappropriate emails by requiring a few math problems be solved in advance. That humorous concept seems have led to a more serious and useful feature. Google Mail’s new Undo Send functionality holds your email for 5 seconds before sending so that you can pull it back and switch from reply to all to just reply to sender, attach a forgotten attachment, etc. This feature must be for a more sober audience, since it will take an alcohol addled brain more than 5 seconds to realize that the email that they sent was a bad idea and by then it’s too late.