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I have wanted this for a long time. When I'm looking for information it's incredibly useful to have email results returned as well as web. Not to mention the fa

I have wanted this for a long time. When I'm looking for information it's incredibly useful to have email results returned as well as web. Not to mention the fact that emailing things to myself just became infinitely more useful.

stephengillie 14y ago
This is the exact opposite of what I want. When I'm looking for information it's highly irrelevant for my email to show in my results. If I'd wanted something that was in my email, I'd just search there instead. This is actually motivating me to find a different email host.
- barista 14y ago
  ...or a different search engine
- freehunter 14y ago
  I email myself stuff all the time just as a "fyi" personal cloud bookmark service. Even disregarding that use case, sometimes I'll think "I know I saw this somewhere" but not know where. If it was emailed to me and I don't remember that it was emailed, I won't even think to search Gmail for it. It's not like you're giving Google any more information than they already have.
mapgrep 14y ago
I've wanted this too. I have information in Gmail (Google Apps version), Google Reader, and Google Docs, plus information I've read randomly on the internet, and I often can't remember where I saw something. The more integration they can do, the better. As a side note, this is something Spotlight should do on OS X, but it never quite got there, because Apple as usual seems to have lost interest in this OS feature after they used it as a selling point to launch one of them (Tiger? Leopard?). I don't use Mail, but ideally Apple would have developed and promoted Spotlight plugins to the point where you could have a 'live' Gmail plugin, a Google Reader plugin, a Google plugin, etc, but Apple seems more interested in a monolithic approach. Point being if I could also search my text messages, iChat messages, and Word docs I'd be even happier. And imagine if the closed caption full text summaries of all the Hulu and Netflix you watched were searchable too.
- jasonkolb 14y ago
  I love your idea of a global spotlight, incorporating APIs from all the services I use. I wish there was a service that provided this, it would save me ton of time. I suffer from the "where did I see that?" syndrome all the time.
lsc 14y ago
huh. I disagree; Quite often I will search for an error message, or system problem, and google will come back with mailing list posts... that I posted. It's irritating on the level of the "please see your systems administrator" windows error messages. If I knew the answer, I wouldn't be searching.

stephengillie 14y ago

This is the exact opposite of what I want. When I'm looking for information it's highly irrelevant for my email to show in my results. If I'd wanted something that was in my email, I'd just search there instead. This is actually motivating me to find a different email host.

barista 14y ago
...or a different search engine
freehunter 14y ago
I email myself stuff all the time just as a "fyi" personal cloud bookmark service. Even disregarding that use case, sometimes I'll think "I know I saw this somewhere" but not know where. If it was emailed to me and I don't remember that it was emailed, I won't even think to search Gmail for it. It's not like you're giving Google any more information than they already have.

mapgrep 14y ago

I've wanted this too. I have information in Gmail (Google Apps version), Google Reader, and Google Docs, plus information I've read randomly on the internet, and I often can't remember where I saw something. The more integration they can do, the better. As a side note, this is something Spotlight should do on OS X, but it never quite got there, because Apple as usual seems to have lost interest in this OS feature after they used it as a selling point to launch one of them (Tiger? Leopard?). I don't use Mail, but ideally Apple would have developed and promoted Spotlight plugins to the point where you could have a 'live' Gmail plugin, a Google Reader plugin, a Google plugin, etc, but Apple seems more interested in a monolithic approach. Point being if I could also search my text messages, iChat messages, and Word docs I'd be even happier. And imagine if the closed caption full text summaries of all the Hulu and Netflix you watched were searchable too.

jasonkolb 14y ago
I love your idea of a global spotlight, incorporating APIs from all the services I use. I wish there was a service that provided this, it would save me ton of time. I suffer from the "where did I see that?" syndrome all the time.

lsc 14y ago

huh. I disagree; Quite often I will search for an error message, or system problem, and google will come back with mailing list posts... that I posted. It's irritating on the level of the "please see your systems administrator" windows error messages. If I knew the answer, I wouldn't be searching.