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If you’re signed in to Google and have opted in to its new search upgrade field test, the main Google search window can now display results from your Gmail account and list any relevant docs or files it finds stored inside your Google Drive cloud storage area.
The upgrade, which requires users to first opt in here and to be using the Google.com domain for their searches, will then rifle through all your stuff and serve it up for you alongside web results, making it a dead easy way to dig up an old email without having to open up the Gmail app, for example.
It also means your Google Drive files will be searchable by anyone using a computer signed in with your Google account, so it might be time to start being a little more vigilant about actually clicking the “sign out” button every once in a while, should you activate this new mega-search facility. [Google via RWW]
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Whilst I work in SEO so I may be biased I hate the personalisation of search. I want to find external internet results when I go to google.co.uk – not my own emails. If I want that I’ll search on Gmail. Stop homogenizing everything!
since this only works on Google.com (currently) you are safe for the moment. Knowing Google they will have a option to turn this off anyway.
But knowing Google it will be rolled out to co.uk and it will be opt in by default.
I think you’re confusing Google with Facebook
I’m with you though. I am really not interested in seeing stuff I already know when I Google something
Title is a little misleading and sensation seeking (IMO) “Google adds Drive files to your search results” would have been less so. Although your warming to log out of google is a sensible one.
But I just searched on Google for “Sarcastic monkey” and found all your holiday snaps from 2010!
It’s been longer than that since I had a holiday.
But this is your sarcastic monkey?
I don’t own, nor have I ever met, a sarcastic Monkey. I do have an insecure Marmoset.
So who’s sarcastic monkey holiday photos have I been looking at?
*whose
I’d rather people not know my subscription to brazzers.
bless….still pays for porn
Actually I don’t.