Pinpoint is an AI-powered research platform designed to help journalists and academics analyze large collections of documents. With Pinpoint, you can:
- Analyze massive collections: Easily search, filter, transcribe and organize thousands of documents, including PDFs, images, and audio files.
- Leverage generative AI: Use Gemini's capabilities to answer research questions together with supporting evidence found in your documents.
- Foster collaborative research: share your work with colleagues and tackle large scale projects as a team. You can also publicly share - supporting community-driven research.
For assistance with Pinpoint, please consult our Community Forum or you can contact our support team.
Availability
- Pinpoint access with the ability to create collections and manage private work is available to users aged 18 or above with a personal or work/school Google Account.
- If you use a school or work-managed account, your organization’s admin needs to turn on access to Pinpoint.
- Signed-out users may access publicly shared collections in view-only mode.
- Journalists and Academics may qualify for a Pinpoint for Professionals account; apply by submitting this form and Learn more about Pinpoint for Professionals.
- Some of Pinpoint’s features may be subject to regional availability.
Terms of use
Google Terms of Service applies to your use of Pinpoint, regardless of the type of Google account used; Please note that Pinpoint is considered an Additional Google services in Workspace, which means Workspace terms of service do not apply to your use of Pinpoint.
Privacy
This notice and our Privacy Policy describe how Google handles your Pinpoint data. Please read them carefully.
How Pinpoint protects your data
Google was founded on the belief that everything we do should always respect the user. As the Internet evolves, this means continuously advancing our security technologies. Industry-leading privacy and security technologies are built into all of our products, including Pinpoint. Read more in Google Safety Center.
The Google privacy team participates in every product launch, reviewing design documentation and performing code reviews to ensure that privacy requirements are followed. We also follow a rigid process for responding to any government requests for customer data. We disclose information about the number and type of requests we receive from governments through the Google Transparency Report.
Where your data is stored
When creating a collection in Pinpoint, you are requested to specify the data that you would like the collection to include. This is done by selecting files and/or folders in Drive as well as files from your computer. Pinpoint then fetches the data from the files and folders (including subfolders) that were specified. Note that Pinpoint copies the file contents, which means that the original files and folders remain untouched.
Data access
Documents uploaded to collections are private by default in Pinpoint and documents uploaded privately aren’t used for the purposes of training Large Language Models (LLMs). To have your collections accessible to anyone on the web, make your collections publicly available. If you don't want your documents publicly accessible, do not publish your collections. Learn about managing your collections and documents.
Google may access your documents if required to by applicable laws and regulations or if we suspect your documents are causing a broad outage in Pinpoint affecting other users. Within Google, this access is limited to the core team working on Pinpoint and essential teams involved with these procedures.
Generative AI features & feedback submissions
Google collects your Pinpoint product usage information, your location, and your feedback, such as in-product feedback, inputs, and edits. Google uses this data, consistent with our Privacy Policy, to provide, improve, and develop Google products and services across Google, including machine learning technologies.
To help with quality and improve our products, Google human reviewers may read, annotate and process a sample of your generative AI activity - specifically prompts and responses. We take steps to protect your privacy as part of these processes. This includes disconnecting your interactions with Pinpoint from your Google account by default before reviewers see or annotate them. Don’t include information that can be used to identify you, such as phone numbers, email addresses, or birthdates when using Pinpoint’s generative AI features.
Abuse
Please read our program policies to learn what may constitute a violation of our program policies. We regularly monitor for abuse and may take action upon identification of abusive content - including removal of abusive content and termination of abusive accounts.
If you believe that someone is violating these policies, report abuse by emailing pinpoint-report-abuse@google.com.
Copyright
Respect copyright laws. Do not share copyrighted content without the necessary rights to do so. It's our policy to respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement. Repeated infringement of intellectual property rights, including copyright, will result in account termination.
If you find a violation of Google's copyright policies, report copyright infringement.