Google Calendar Gets Smart Rescheduler

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Google always tries to make task simpler for its users and so it has about 25 million users for Google apps. One of the major tasks for most of the people is to reschedule an appointment, which can be of real hassle and the task gets harder if you have more people involved. On the other hand, most people do have any one to handle it or assist them, which can waste lot of time in rescheduling. Again, Google is here as savoir trying to fix that by introducing automated reschedule for Google Calendar.

David Marmaros, Software Engineer at Google wrote

If you’re searching for something on the web, you don’t just start randomly visiting pages looking for relevant content, you use a search engine. So we decided to apply some of Google’s search experience to the problem of scheduling. We experimented with using ranking algorithms to return the most relevant meeting times based on specified criteria like attendees, schedule complexity, conference rooms, and time zones. Just like Google search ranks the web, our scheduling search algorithm returns a ranked set of the best candidate dates and times.

Today we’re launching the result of that experiment, a gadget called Smart Rescheduler, in Google Calendar Labs. Once you turn it on, just select an event you’d like to reschedule, then click “Find a new time…

Google is still experimenting the feature and more likely to become permanent on in Google Calendar. Looks like Smart Rescheduler would prove to be very useful for small and huge businesses as well.

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