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Google updates Gmail and Maps web apps

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Google has updated both its online version of Mail as well as Maps. The new update to Gmail will now tell you exactly why an email was put inside your spam folder. You could see different messages, depending upon the type of mail and its contents. It could tell you about a malicious link or virus, or that the contents of a mail matches other spam messages or that you have previously marked messages from that particular sender as spam.

This should come in handy on occasions where Gmail wrongly puts a mail into the Spam filter but considering how rare that is you won’t be finding much use for this new feature. Nevertheless, it’s good to have it around.

Now coming over to Maps, Google has updated more than a thousand 3D models of landmarks around the world to make them look more accurate. Google claims this will help tourists find their way around easier because of the close similarity between the new 3D models and their real life counterpart. You can see the difference for yourself below, with the first image showing the old 3D model of the Piazza del Duomo in Florence, Italy and the next image showing the new updated version.

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