Cloud Search cheat sheet

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Search across your Google products, find contact details, get relevant work information quickly, and more. Get Cloud Search: Web (cloudsearch.google.com), Android, or iOS

1. Search across Google products.

Search results' details:

	Gmail—Email
	Calendar—Online calendar
	Docs—Documents
	Sheets—Spreadsheets
	Slides—Presentations
	Forms—Surveys
or	New or classic Sites—Websites
	Drawings—Illustrations such as diagrams and charts
	Groups—Online forums and email-based groups
	Drive folder—Online file storage

 

2. Find and contact people.

 

3. Keep track of meetings and files with assist cards.

 

4. Narrow search results with search operators.

Operator	Examples	Description
" " (quotes)	"market analysis"	Find content that includes the exact word, or set of words, in the same order as what's inside the quotes.
- (minus)	payroll -reports  inventory -owner:me  sales contenttype:doc -owner:me	Find content that does not include the specific word or operator term. Note: This operator doesn't work alone. You need to use it with a search term or another operator.
AND	sales reports  sales AND reports	By default, only pages that include all of your search terms are returned. You don’t need to include AND between the terms.
OR	sales OR marketing  sales from:(marysmith OR johndoe)	Find content that includes at least one of the words or operator terms.
source:	training source:mail	Find content from a particular Google product, including Gmail, Drive, Sites, Groups, Calendar.
contenttype:	training contenttype:doc	Find particular types of content, such as documents, spreadsheets, presentations, images, folders, and attachments.
owner:	reports owner:me  reports owner:marysmith	Find content you own or that’s been shared with you.
from:	reports from:me source:drive  reports from:(marysmith OR johndoe)	Specify the person who sent or who created the content you’re looking for.
to:	reports to:me from:marysmith  reports to:golf-club-members	Specify the person who received the content you’re looking for.
before:	orders before:09/30/2015 or orders before:2015/09/30	Find content created or edited before a certain date: (MM/DD/YYYY) or (YYYY/MM/DD).
after:	orders after:09/30/2015 or orders after:2015/09/30	Find content created or edited after a certain date: (MM/DD/YYYY) or (YYYY/MM/DD).