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Google Buzz Getting More Inbox Management Features

Written By
Clint Boulton
Clint Boulton
Mar 12, 2010
1 minute read
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Google Buzz has gone through a number of changes since its release more than a month ago, but most of these changes have been privacy-related.

After the privacy control concerns, the second biggest complaint centers around how noisy Buzz can get. When you’ve got every Tom, Dick and Harry you don’t know following you, seeing their Buzz can be tiresome. Turn that racket off, you say!

The Buzz team is still listening to your pleas. On March 11, the Google Buzz team sent out a brief Buzz that it is working on two features to cut down on the noise:

Updated: As of March 13, these changes are live:

The new comments info:

Comments management will be a welcome addition, as well as the mute link. You can already mute posts when the comments pile up, but any additional mute controls will help.

Buzz users are pleased:

What else would you like to see added to or subtracted from Buzz?

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