Late last year, I noticed this new thing in GSuite: Google Cloud Search. My immediate reaction? “Meh, I know all about Google searching” and quickly forgot about it. Such a mistake on my part. Now, fast forward several months to the day I remembered it and did my first internal search. I have used it darn-near every day since.
So, what is it, Richard?
Google Cloud Search is the best of both worlds. It works very much like the Google Search we all use every day, except it is only searching your files – and meetings, mail, Google Docs, Sheets, Presentations, Forms, and anything Google, even team members. It **literally** (in actuality) finds all those things you filed away (in my case “over filed,” in places I will never forget, that I do, in fact, sometimes forget.). Think of Google Cloud Search as the “Googler” you need specifically for your business.
Instead of searching inside of Google Calendar for a meeting I have about a project I am working on with a client, searching for an email about a meeting, and then searching for a document I need, I can find all related materials, presentations, spreadsheets, emails, calendare
