Louis Gray has the scoop on Google’s revamped version of the Contacts section of Gmail. I’m most excited about an existing feature Louis mentions which I somehow didn’t know about: a tool for merging duplicate contacts: Both my personal and business Gmail accounts are overrun by dupes, in part because syncing Gmail contacts with other address books usually seems to create phantom records.

The merge feature isn’t perfect. It doesn’t weed out every dupe–even after I ran it, I was left with two records for guys named “Harry McCracken”–and you might be left with records which include both current e-mail addresses and obsolete ones. But it’s still way more fast and pleasant than wading through hundreds of contacts and pruning out duplicates yourself. And for me, it’s a reminder that any software feature you don’t know about is a new feature…

 
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