Google Tweaks Docs Search
August 22, 2010
I noted with interest Jason Kincaid’s TechCrunch article “Now You Can Search For Google Docs From Within Gmail (And It Catches Typos, Too)” with a “Did you mean” suggestion. You can enable “Apps Search” in the Gmail Labs tag in Settings. / Bram Moolenaar, Software Engineer, says in the Gmail Blog,
The paint is still wet and we plan to make further improvements the coming months.
So is there a reason to use this?
There is if the “Did you mean” suggestion can also pick up misspellings and typos in the content being searched and not just mistakes we make or appear to make while searching. This could have enormously significant use in picking out imperfections in PDF (portable document format) document’s ASCII generated by optical character recognition, for instance. Or, what about spotting idiosyncratic typos users make in their emails and documents but not when they search.
For the Google to learn more about what we each want when we search, it would be of interest to see how we find or don’t find stuff in our own sandbox. To each his own sandman?
Ken Toth, August 22, 2010
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