You struggle to see clearly in the jungle of your files Drive? Google wants to help you with new search options and improved performance.
Google continues to improve its web services. After the deployment of new options on Google Maps, it’s Drive’s turn to have the right to a good facelift. In a post published on its blog dedicated to its office suite, Google detailed some of the improvements deployed on its remote file hosting and creation service.
A smarter search
Probably the most useful change is to search. In the new version of its mobile application (already deployed on iOS and soon available on Android), Google has revised the way it sorts files to allow its users to find the desired documents more easily.
Rather than a long carousel to scroll to filter by file type, document owner and modification date, Google now offers a dedicated context menu for each search filter. In just a few clicks, you can refine your search by specifying that the file you are looking for is a PDF created by a colleague last week, for example. The solution is much more ergonomic than previous filter options which required you to scroll through all document types on a single thin line.
The search will also be “dynamic” in the sense that the filters will adapt to the terms typed in the search bar. If you have a video and a text document with the same name, the application will only bring up these two filters to help you find your file as efficiently as possible.
An improved video experience
Another small new feature, playing videos on Google Drive should now be much smoother. In its announcement post, Google explains that all videos uploaded to Google Drive will now benefit from the technology “Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP“.
Behind these obscure terms is in fact simply the ability of a video to modulate its quality depending on the speed of your connection. Exactly like YouTube, if your connection is fast, the video will play in maximum quality and if it is limited, the player will deliver a more compressed version. For the moment, only newly uploaded files will be affected, but Google explains that “videos already in Drive will be updated by the end of the year“.
Source : Google Workspace via 9to5Google
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