GMail gets instant search

Quite a strange idea - to make a search plug-in for GMail and Google Apps - i.e. the services of the Search Giant. Nevertheless, the startup CloudMagic had enough courage to make it. And they've created really useful thing. Most people would say that the search in GMail - is great enough, and even if this CloudMagic gives search-as-you-type results - it's not the reason to pay attention to it. But the search speed - is not the greatest feature of CloudMagic. First, it shows search results in a popup widget - on top of the main GMail interface. So if you writing an email and need to find some information in the previous messages or docs - you don't need to save the email to drafts, open the search page, then view the search results one by one, copy something and go back to the email. Now you can (without closing the message) quickly find and copy what you need in the popup widget.

Second, unlike the native GMail search, CloudMagic can search in several Google accounts at once. For example, in your individual GMail account and your work Google Apps account. And it's no need to switch between them. In the settings you just enter your accounts, which should be indexed.



And third, CloudMagic stores its search index on your computer, so you can search your Google Apps even offline! This is quite an easy way to backup your data stored in Google Apps for the case when you don't have an internet connection.

Currently CloudMagic can search in GMail, Google Docs and Google Contacts. But the plans of this startup are much more ambitious. They want to make a universal search engine for all popular online services, including Hotmail, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, etc.

Nevertheless, CloudMagic - is still a plugin. And it needs to be installed. For now it supports only Firefox and Chrome.

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