[Matt_Cutts]

I do that all the time too. I don't want to have to act like a mini-search engine myself and ask "Now where did I see that?" I just want to find the info easily and quickly.

It's important to emphasize that this is a field trial that people can request to join. We're going to keep the trial relatively small (~1 million people) so that we can collect feedback to make sure that the product is really helpful and that it doesn't surprise people.

I've already seen the product become much more useful just from internal feedback, so I'm looking forward to what the field trial participants have to say.

[joelhaus]

Hey Matt, Been waiting years for this, it's much appreciated.

Any plans to include Google Drive results too? I'm opted in to the Apps Search lab in Gmail, so it would nice if that applied to universal web search results too.

In case anyone is wondering, the "Apps Search" lab[0] in Gmail is described as follows:

  Extends search with Google Docs and Sites results.
  Apps Search will find the most relevant Docs and
  Sites and show them below Gmail search results.

[0] https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/u/0/#settings/labs

[Matt_Cutts]

Great point--Liz Gannes asked that question at the event, and the answer she got was that we'd like to explore offering things like Docs or calendar information as well. Gmail seemed like the best place to start for the field trial though in terms of useful information to surface.

[barista]

The feature no doubt is helpful but is there a reason to not expose this feature via something like Google Desktop and to store the index locally?