Google updates Drive with NLP, auto-correct search and more

Google has updated Drive with some of the features of Google Search. Drive now supports natural language search. This allows users to conversationally search through the contents of their Drive. Search queries can include documents from a particular contact, or a specific kind of document from a particular month. The search string is automatically converted to the search syntax used by Google. So a search string of “Show Budget Spreadsheets” becomes “budget type: spreadsheets”. https://twitter.com/googledrive/status/778275878488858624 Machine Learning is being used to make the search results constantly better, so the feature is going to improve with use. An auto-correct feature has been added to the search results. Instead of typing out the query again, users can click on suggested corrections, in case there is a typographical error in the search string. These features now make finding files easier, and searching documents faster. [caption id=“attachment_336393” align=“aligncenter” width=“640”]  Docs now supports columns[/caption] There are a few minor updates to Docs, but these were highly requested features. There is now columns feature for Docs. The columns feature is only available for Word documents. The formatting menu allows for insertion of up to three columns in a document. The spacing between the columns can be specified. Users can toggle on or off a vertical line between the columns. If a document from an external source is edited within docs, the Revision History in Docs, Sheets and Slides saves a copy of the file in the original file format. These features have started rolling out globally.