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> Why can't this be done offline? Where? On every device a user owns?

• yoz-y 8y ago
  That’s what Apple does to some extend. “Siri found in mail” contacts and events. Maybe some more.
  • saagarjha 8y ago
    Siri pulls from Messages for those things as well, and will pull spelling and other suggestions out of Safari browsing.
• olliej 8y ago
  Yes. A better question would be “why does google itself need this information when it’s just a client side UI feature?”
  • blihp 8y ago
    Because... Google's business model. Your ability to see your purchase history on a Google page is neat, but it seems a safe bet that the real reason they want your purchase history is because their profile about you as a set of eyeballs becomes more valuable allowing them to charge higher rates on ads. Notice that they only claimed to have stopped scraping gmail for ad targeting purposes, not that they stopped scraping period.
  • tyler_larson 8y ago
    Gmail's primary UI is a web browser. How... how do you think that _actually_ might work?