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To be honest, Drive does a good job at indexing also the content of the documents. My gripe with it is that when I search something I get all the results of thi

To be honest, Drive does a good job at indexing also the content of the documents. My gripe with it is that when I search something I get all the results of things that people shared with me directly or indirectly though groups. If I could have the option of searching only things that I actually accessed, or even edited/commented I would be really happy about it.

bruhbruhbruh 5y ago
I actually seem to have the opposite result. I seem to only be able to find documents that were shared with me, or that I accessed myself. I want to be able to find documents that I have not actually seen, yet have access to view. Confluence is a bit like this - i can search all of the spaces and get results from other parts of the org. but drive seems to push results to the top which are more localized to my immediate previous use
systemvoltage 5y ago
I always get lost in Google Drive. I don't even know what I am looking at in Google Drive. I wouldn't say, one of the worst UIs in existence, but it is hard to give any more credibility to it. After years of use, I still don't know what I own, what is shared with me, what others own, how are docs organized, etc. At least with dropbox, you have a folder structure. With Google, it's hidden somewhere.
mft_ 5y ago
Totally agree. It makes finding the right document far harder than a product from the company most associated with search in the world should make it. On the corporate Google Drive version I use at work you can choose to search only within your own drive, but it’s clunky to set up and you have remember to do it before you type in your search term - which is counter-intuitive. It would be much better if there a selection of filters appeared to apply to the search results - owner, drive, when I last accessed or edited (as you suggested), etc. (As an aside… don’t folks in Google use their own products and hit the same frustrations? It takes no more than a few days of using corporate Drive to run into this…)

bruhbruhbruh 5y ago

I actually seem to have the opposite result. I seem to only be able to find documents that were shared with me, or that I accessed myself. I want to be able to find documents that I have not actually seen, yet have access to view. Confluence is a bit like this - i can search all of the spaces and get results from other parts of the org. but drive seems to push results to the top which are more localized to my immediate previous use

systemvoltage 5y ago

I always get lost in Google Drive. I don't even know what I am looking at in Google Drive. I wouldn't say, one of the worst UIs in existence, but it is hard to give any more credibility to it. After years of use, I still don't know what I own, what is shared with me, what others own, how are docs organized, etc. At least with dropbox, you have a folder structure. With Google, it's hidden somewhere.

mft_ 5y ago

Totally agree. It makes finding the right document far harder than a product from the company most associated with search in the world should make it. On the corporate Google Drive version I use at work you can choose to search only within your own drive, but it’s clunky to set up and you have remember to do it before you type in your search term - which is counter-intuitive. It would be much better if there a selection of filters appeared to apply to the search results - owner, drive, when I last accessed or edited (as you suggested), etc. (As an aside… don’t folks in Google use their own products and hit the same frustrations? It takes no more than a few days of using corporate Drive to run into this…)