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Google Search For Android Now Finds Info Hidden Inside Apps (pcworld.com)
An anonymous reader writes: First Google created a centralized place to search the web, and now Google has a centralized spot to search your Android phone. The company just announced a new feature for the Google App called In Apps. As its name implies, In Apps lets you search for content inside your Android apps, such as a specific song, contact, or note in Google Keep. To start, the new feature will only work with a select number of apps, including Gmail, Spotify, and YouTube. Google also has plans to add Evernote, Facebook Messenger, Glide, Google Keep, LinkedIn, and Todoist in the coming months. All app searches happen on your device itself, not Google's servers, which means you don't need an Internet connection to use the feature. It's not clear how often the app will index your content or how much of a hit it will take on your battery or device performance.
.. is created, then let me guess - it goes to the cloud?
man - if i was an evil man the things you could do!
but luckily, google doesn't do evil. right?
...and it wants its Spotlight Feature back!
Only one difference: iOS doesn't use it for (yet another) Datamining source, like with Google.
Dude can't even find stuff in Hilary's emails, what does he hope to find in anyone elses?