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:
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Gmail—Email |
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Calendar—Online calendar |
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Docs—Documents |
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Sheets—Spreadsheets |
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Slides—Presentations |
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Forms—Surveys |
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New or classic Sites—Websites |
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Drawings—Illustrations such as diagrams and charts |
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Groups—Online forums and email-based groups |
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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.
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Operator |
Examples | Description |
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| " " (quotes) | "market analysis" |
Find content that includes the exact word, or set of words, in the same order as what's inside the quotes. |
| - (hyphen) |
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 & 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 | marketing sales from:(marysmith OR johndoe) |
Find content that includes at least one of the words or operator terms. |
| NOT | sales NOT marketing |
Find content that does not include the specific word or operator term. |
| 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. |
| filetype: | training filetype:(doc OR pdf) |
Find content with a particular file extension. |
| 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). |
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