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IC. But how can an extension like your's search through gmail better than gmail's own search? Or better than slack's? Do you use their api's? Did you roll your
by misterman0 8y ago
IC. But how can an extension like your's search through gmail better than gmail's own search? Or better than slack's? Do you use their api's? Did you roll your own full-text search?
- cdouglasosborn 8y agoGreat question! I wouldn't say if you're just looking for something in Gmail that we will be better. The main benefit is that you're able to search through all of them in one place. The way it works is, we show you "instant" results from files/documents that we have cached from your providers and your browser history. However, we also show you below that results that come direct from Gmail, Slack, Drive...etc. That way if we don't find the result you're after, you're able to see the same results as if you'd opened up all the tabs and performed the searches in each tool as well. We do this using their OAuth search functionalities. We do do full text search for documents that you have visited in the past, and the cloud providers often do this as well so that helps ensure we can find you good results. One big difference is that our search uses a less precise search, which means we support spelling mistakes, different ordering...etc. Which can help us find documents that are hard to find.