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New links in Gmail

People have noticed some new links at the top of their Gmail as of yesterday.  This link bar used to only have links to Google, Gmail, and Google Calendar -- now it has added "Photos" and "Spreadsheets" and changed "more >>" to "all my services >>".
Written by Garett Rogers, Inactive

People have noticed some new links at the top of their Gmail as of yesterday.  This link bar used to only have links to Google, Gmail, and Google Calendar -- now it has added "Photos" and "Spreadsheets" and changed "more >>" to "all my services >>".

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It actually surprises me that the link to "all my services" only points to your personal account management page -- I would have thought they would have released the custom link bar that was discovered months ago.

Now if Google would only change it so when you click on those links, it doesn't open a new window -- that behaviour is quite annoying if you flip between Google Calendar and Gmail often.  Even so, this is exactly what Google needs to do to promote their other services because a large number of users don't know about services like Picasa Web Albums or Google Spreadsheets.

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