Google brings Natural Language Processing to Drive

Google’s Search engine is considered as the best and most powerful today.

That’s it for now but Google promises more is on the way. Everything that Google is doing is for the benefit of the web users who deserve correct and accurate data all the time. Drive now has a new autocorrect feature that suggests corrections to misspelled search terms – which can really help when your brain is moving faster than your fingers’, says Josh Smith, the product manager for Drive.

Not only would anybody be remiss to call Google’s obsession with machine learning a pet project at this point, but nobody in the know could say it with a straight face; the technology is making its way into just about every corner of the search giant’s empire, and Google Drive is its latest conquest.

“Where’s that damn document I’m looking for?” It enables users to “search like you talk”. It’s already like giving a command to the Drive.

Instead of searching Drive for documents based on specific filenames, you can now type, “show budget spreadsheets” or “find presentations from Jodie”, for example. When you mistype a search query, you may get a “did you mean” suggestion underneath it if Google Drive could not match any files or folders to the original query.

It comes after Google in December rolled out a “new search experience” for Drive. Basically, what it allows you to do is type queries in natural language. You can now split Docs into columns from the “Format” menu, for one, and when you import a non-Docs file from another app, Google will now save the original copy in addition to the Docs conversion. This allows easier reading, viewing, and typing. Go to Format Columns select the number of columns required for your document. The search string is automatically converted to the search syntax used by Google.