Google Search For Android Now Finds Info Hidden Inside Apps (pcworld.com) 40
An anonymous reader writes: First Google created a centralized place to search the web, and now Google has a centralized spot to search your Android phone. The company just announced a new feature for the Google App called In Apps. As its name implies, In Apps lets you search for content inside your Android apps, such as a specific song, contact, or note in Google Keep. To start, the new feature will only work with a select number of apps, including Gmail, Spotify, and YouTube. Google also has plans to add Evernote, Facebook Messenger, Glide, Google Keep, LinkedIn, and Todoist in the coming months. All app searches happen on your device itself, not Google's servers, which means you don't need an Internet connection to use the feature. It's not clear how often the app will index your content or how much of a hit it will take on your battery or device performance.
Re:Meanwhile... (Score:4, Funny)
So - an index of your content on your device.. (Score:2)
.. is created, then let me guess - it goes to the cloud?
man - if i was an evil man the things you could do!
but luckily, google doesn't do evil. right?
Re: So - an index of your content on your device.. (Score:1)
Cyanogenmod, no Google play, just F-droid. Go fuck yourselves, Google employees!
iOS 3.0 Called... (Score:3, Insightful)
Only one difference: iOS doesn't use it for (yet another) Datamining source, like with Google.
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Searching though documents was available in Windows nt4 including a plugin system so any app could make its documents content searchable
God DAMN! Next someone will point out grep, then another will point out Sherlock on MacOS, then someone will come up with something that ran on a PDP-8...
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Only one difference: iOS doesn't use it for (yet another) Datamining source
Can you prove that?
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The advertising i ads system definitely doesn't connect to any of the other services, anyone can see that! Your purchase history? Nope! Your GPS location even though you have GPS off? NEVER!
Nope, no datamining here!
If you are talking about iAd, Apple discontinued that service in July. Do try to keep up.
As for the GPS stuff, the Gummint mandated that on ALL cellphones several years ago.
You really are an idiot.
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Only one difference: iOS doesn't use it for (yet another) Datamining source
Can you prove that?
Nice try. Can't prove a negative, fucktard.
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All desktops called... they want their "Find"/"Search"/locate features back.
I only have a dumb flip phone. Are you really telling me you couldn't search your phone for something before now? I didn't realize the data was so controlled by their related apps. So instead of browsing then selecting a picture to get the image viewer you had to open the image viewer then browse for the picture? No wonder I keep hearing about new "Send To " features.
Hey, be mad at Google! They're the ones who are touting this as some new Revelation...
Re: iOS 3.0 Called... (Score:1)
Palm OS had that at least as long ago as version 3, sometime in the mid 90's, I think. All your app had to do was to respond to the API call. Nothing new here.
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Palm OS had that at least as long ago as version 3, sometime in the mid 90's, I think. All your app had to do was to respond to the API call. Nothing new here.
So why is Google announcing this like it is?
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Not for nothing, but BlackBerry has always had this functionality. Start typing the name of a song, person, web page you've visited, map location or whatever, and it comes up instantly. Always has.
But can it search content in APPS? That is what Google is crowing about.
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Newton OS (1993): http://www.unna.org/unna/apple... [unna.org] (page 589)
Sherlock on MacOS may even predate that, though.
That app for apps guy (Score:2)
Bring back Google Desktop (Score:2)
Now if Google will bring back Google Desktop, which did this sort of deep-dive local searching for Windows (was it Linux also?) machines.
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Windows has had its own local search indexing of that kind for ages, which is probably why Google discontinued theirs.
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I didn't realize it worked as well as Google's. I compared them back when I used Google Desktop, and it was not as good (~2008). Maybe it is better now--I'll try it again.
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A peek over the wall (Score:2)
Didn't they announce this months ago? (Score:2)
Didn't they announce this in May at the Google I/O conference? And IIRC the app has to be modified to make this available to the search app...