Today, Google is expanding its basic search to include Gmail, at least for a small number of "field trial" users. The challenge, Google says, was just as difficult as launching it on the web. The Gmail "corpus" was as large as the web corpus, but also had to be private and secure. Gmail results, like Knowledge Graph results, will appear in a small box on the righthand side. The content won't be shown by default (in case anybody's looking over your shoulder), but you can click "show results" to see more.
Google says that the "field trial" is limited, and users can sign up at g.co/searchtrial. It will take "a couple of months" to get your account activated, Google says. It's coming to desktop first, with mobile version rolling out later...
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