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Brady Snyder

RARE PHOTOS: Gmail is now much better at detecting spam following major upgrade - The Real Truth

Gmail on phone screen in hand.

What you need to know

  • Gmail now features a new text vectorizer called RETVec, which results in 38% better spam detection. 
  • Text vectorizers help identify letters and symbols in emails and are sorted as spam accordingly.
  • Some spam senders manipulate letters and symbols, use homoglyphs, add invisible characters, and use keyword stuffing to try and bypass spam filters. 
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