About Bard's new ability to search a user's Gmail and Google Drive.
Has this happened?
Yes 67 (63%)Not sure 26 (25%)No 13 (12%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About Bard's new ability to search a user's Gmail and Google Drive.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Now this is actually useful. There's a lot of good information in my Gmail but searching it is such a pain that I hardly ever do.
I just asked Bard for the date of an upcoming event and it did the search for me and found the right answer and summarized it with extra detail and references. This is the only reason so far that I'd go to Bard over ChatGPT.
It did treat the @Gmail part as part of the query words though, which is weird. I think it won't be ready for mass consumption until it can decide for itself when to search Gmail or Drive with no weird keywords necessary.