Friday, May 1st, 2009 by Andy Beal

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New Search Options for Gmail and Twitter

Apparently, Google’s engineers have adult attention deficit disorder. I’m being serious! Because of ADD, we now have Google Search integrated directly into the Gmail interface:

I used to have a problem. People would ask me questions, over chat or email, and I’d have to leave Gmail to search Google for an answer. Then I’d have to select the answer, copy it, go back to Gmail and paste the answer into the chat window or my reply. Sometimes I’d get distracted and forget to go back to Gmail, and I’d have to go through it all again when I remembered what I’d been doing.

Poor guy.

Anyway, head to the Gmail Labs tab in your account and you’ll see the option to switch on Google Search within Gmail. You’ll then get this in your sidebar:

And this handy pop-up with your search results:

Meanwhile, Twitter also decided today was a good day to better integrate its search tool with its interface. The previously announced changes should now be visible to all Twitter users.


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5 comments on “New Search Options for Gmail and Twitter”

  1. Todd Mintz Says:

    May 1st, 2009 at 12:04 pm

    They need to do this for Google Reader too.

  2. alex redmond Says:

    May 2nd, 2009 at 3:35 am

    The Twitter search integration is one of the best ones I have seen. It stays within the page and it looks like it has been there for ever, so well does it integrate with the home page. I think this is what will push Twitter even further on, not celebrity endorsements…

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  3. zappolo Says:

    May 2nd, 2009 at 7:45 pm

    I don’t think it will be so usefull…

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  4. mark Says:

    May 3rd, 2009 at 2:10 am

    Yup, they definitely need to spruce up GReader with this feature too. Perhaps they could also implement some sort of filter for the rss feeds so that we only get certain feeds streaming in from all the feeds we subscribe too.

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