Google News, Inside.

Case number two of when Google listens to the public. Which, I have to say, is pretty pathetic that this is only second case I’ve written about where Google has listened to the public and made a change. Look at Flock, for example, they listen, listen, listen, then change, change, change.

Enough about that though. Here’s the actual change that happened.

Google Gmail’s Contacts now provides the option of not automatically adding new contacts. This is a great and awesome feature because that’s one thing that really bugs bugged me about Gmail.

When I sync up my contacts to my iPhone and then to Google, and vice versa, I don’t want all these random people on my contact list that I rarely ever contact. I only want people that I know I’ll be calling or talking to soon.

It’s not a complicated feature, but it’s one that needed to be added.

Now, just like they listened here, why can’t they listen to the other great suggestions that many of us have been offering? Here are just a few of them.

• Gmail Templates
• Google Services Suggestions
• Google CalDAV

One other short note, Matt Cutts opened up the flood gates for comments about suggestions for Gmail features. (At the time of writing this post, that article has 288 comments).

So Google knows what we’re saying, they even asked us, but why don’t they listen? There is a clear difference between listening and hearing. I can hear someone, but I may not be listening to what they have to say.

Google. Listen to us. Do not just hear us out, actually listen to us.