{"id":129785,"date":"2019-02-13T20:44:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T20:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=129785"},"modified":"2025-07-01T22:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T05:22:51","slug":"gmail-vs-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/gmail-vs-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail now blocks an extra 100 million spam messages every day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google has been putting a lot of work recently into drowning out all of the annoying background noise we have to deal with as constantly connected and contactable citizens. The Google Phone app now automatically redirects unsolicited calls<\/a> and the Google Messages app does the same with incoming SMS messages<\/a>. Google is working hard to drown out spam emails too. Gmail has long been touted by the search giant for blocking 99.9% of all incoming spam emails. A recent blog post<\/a>\u00a0claims that the world\u2019s leading email client is now stamping out an additional 100 million spam emails every day.<\/p>\n

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The news comes on the back of Google implementing TensorFlow<\/a> to protect your inbox and detect the spam emails. TensorFlow is a new Google-developed open-source machine learning framework that works alongside Google\u2019s current detection protocols. Google had this to say about how TensorFlow has helped Gmail find even more spam emails:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re now blocking spam categories that used to be very hard to detect. Using TensorFlow has helped us block image-based messages, emails with hidden embedded content, and messages from newly created domains that try to hide a low volume of spammy messages within legitimate traffic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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We block an additional 100 million spam and phish-y emails every day using @TensorFlow<\/a>\u2014in conjunction with our other protections. Learn more on how we’re keeping your inbox safe every day \u2192 https:\/\/t.co\/DWFm1yYBMI<\/a> #SaferInternetWeek<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/UJT76maNp5<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Gmail (@gmail) February 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The interesting thing to note here is that although it sounds massive, 100 million spam messages a day isn\u2019t actually that much in the grand scheme of things. Gmail has 1.5 billion users, which means blocking 100 million spam messages a day only stops a spam message getting through to one in 10 users on a daily basis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As always, however, context is king in this situation. On its own, blocking a spam message a day for one in 10 users isn\u2019t much at all. When you think though that these messages are extra on top of the 99.9% of all spam messages that Gmail allegedly blocks already then it becomes much more impressive. Being able to successfully target that 0.1% of spam messages shows that TensorFlow is able to work to a very high level of accuracy.<\/p>\n

In fairness to Google, although 99.9% might sound like hyperbole, it has been a long time indeed since we\u2019ve had to deal with spam messages making it through to our primary Gmail inboxes. Spam isn\u2019t something that Gmail users have to deal with on a daily basis anymore. It is good to see though, that even if it is only a small problem Google is still working on rooting out those few fake or spam emails that still make their way into our inboxes.<\/p>\n

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