Google Buzz may have had a lot of issues when it launched, but it seems as if the team behind it are continuing to fix them in double quick time.
The latest update is that two new controls are coming for the inbox notifications from Google Buzz. The first will let you filter what content starts coming into your email, whilst the second allows you to mute conversations. Revealed in a Google Buzz message, the features are:
‘1) Settings to control what gets sent to your inbox
You’ll be able to choose whether the following buzz items get sent to your inbox:
– Comments on your posts
– Comments on posts after you comment on them
– Comments on posts after you are @replied on them
2) Explanations for why posts get sent to your inbox and a “Mute” link
We’re adding a message on the top of each post in your inbox that explains why it’s there (someone commented on your post, you were @replied, etc.). We’re also adding an easy-to-find “mute” link that will stop subsequent comments from bringing the conversation back to your inbox.’
And apparently the team continue to look at the noise issue of Buzz – something which only became apparent after the public release, as all prior testing of the service was done internally at Google. This helped to keep the service secret prior to launch, but also meant that a small and very specific group was involved in testing, and issues such as email addresses being displayed weren’t flagged as problems.