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Google adds Google Drive documents to search results

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39 pointschrisrhoden16 comments

I love google drive so much. I'm just frustrated there's no common API for web file storage---flip a coin to see whether a given app supports a given service.

This is why Filepicker.io seems to be getting a bit of hype. A neat, common solution to this problem.

It used to take me around 10 seconds to get from opening a new tab, to specific files in Google Drive. Now it takes about 2 seconds. This is a huge improvement. But I hope they integrate it to the chrome omnibox to take it under 1 second.

You can search Google Drive directly from the omnibox by creating a custom search engine in Chrome. Then you only have to type a couple letters, tab, and the search query.

That's neat.

> This trial is only accessible on https://www.google.com in English and for @gmail.com addresses (not available on Google Apps accounts).

Oh.

You seem surprised. This is how google launches pretty much everything they do.

Considering the recent brouhaha about Dropbox messing up Team-linked accounts, I wouldn't be surprised to see a spike in GDrive uptake. Differently from management-driven projects like G+, it's clear that Drive is real dogfood inside Google, essential infrastructure built for Googlers first. As such, it's gaining features very quickly.

If this becomes mandatory for Google, I'd switch search engines. You may call it FUD if you wish, but I would either have to be logged out when making Google searches or risk having some of my e-mail with senders and subject lines revealed to anyone watching my screen.

EDIT: As of now, it's opt-in.

EDIT: It seems most people inferred that I meant people could see the body of the e-mail. I meant to say that people can see the subject and sender exclusively, not in addition to the body.

EDIT: And no, I didn't create that throwaway account with the deleted post. I wouldn't have done this if I did. I'm just saying that it isn't all FUD.

You can see in the screenshot that the results are hidden behind a "Show results" dropdown. There's no risk of people spotting your subject lines by peering over your shoulder at search results.

"Your searches on Google.com may bring up relevant emails, files and more from Gmail and Google Drive"

https://www.gstatic.com/gft/gd1_kt8j8a.png

Check that picture out. Immediately, people can tell that you have email from a certain sender about the topic that you have just searched, even before you click "Search results".

To just get all the comments out of the way:

@adgar2: Senders and subject are available: Subject is the search query, sender is seen right there in the screenshot. Looking over the comment, I probably communicated that people could see the body of the e-mail. That's my mistake, I meant to say that people could see senders and subjects.

@Karunamon: It's real obvious when I'm opening my e-mail that people can see my e-mail. I wouldn't expect that when just searching Google.

All in all, as I said logging out is a perfectly viable option, but the slip up at the wrong time (e.g. getting some spam that passed your filter, searching "ass" while on your way to finishing typing assassin's creed or whatnot, and having "Gmail results: messages from xxx..., Jane Doe,...and 2 others" show up).

> You may call it FUD if you wish, but I would either have to be logged out when making Google searches or risk having some of my e-mail with senders and subject lines revealed to anyone watching my screen.

Considering that's just completely untrue based on all your available data, I won't call it FUD. I'll just call it a lie.

And what if you have your email open? Someone could see the senders and subject lines if they can see your screen! Oh noes! The same way anyone can see anything you're doing if they can see your screen!

This isn't even FUD, this is just plain bullshit.

In response to your second edit, you've answered nothing. My reply stands:

>And what if you have your email open? Someone could see the senders and subject lines if they can see your screen! Oh noes! The same way anyone can see anything you're doing if they can see your screen!

It's crap.

I have special love for dropbox, but I wanna test drive results with Google drive :)

reminds me of Google Desktop for PC

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