When you are searching web with Google, usually it shows you different content from WWW. In very early stage it only had web search, but now it has expanded to image, video, books, blogs, shopping, news, flights and many more. They keep improving search results to show you what you really need.
However Google can show you only public web content. If there is private content at securely shared storage Google has no way to access them and show that content in search result. One good example is your Gmail inbox. What you are really looking for could not be a webpage, image or video, but an email you got from a friend.
Existing Google search engine is not capable of searching your inbox once you do a general search. It’s a huge amount of data. My inbox is having more than 10 GB of email. However, in the near future Google is planning to show you search result from your Gmail inbox as well to further personalize the Google search result.
Try Gmail in Personal Search Result
This feature is still under lab testing and running on limited capacity setup. If you like to be a field tester for Google here is your chance.
- Go to experimental Gmail Field Trial page.
- Click the button ‘Join the field trial’.
- And you are done!
- You can come back to same page to leave field trial anytime.
Once you enable this, there will be a new box in Google search result on right hand side labeled as Gmail result. There you will be able to see emails in your inbox, relevant to current search. Remember appearance of this box is conditional. You must be using “https://www.google.com” in English language and there should be relevant emails in your inbox for the current search query.
This is another major leap in Google search and unbelievable expansion of search domain. Practically this is merging Gmail search with Google Search. This would be great when you are searching for people and travel bookings.
Try the Gmail Field trial and never forget to share your feedback with us.
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