Greplin is a personal search engine for all the data you keep in the cloud. It works a lot like the desktop search Spotlight where you search for a word or phrase and Spotlight will go through your entire hard drive looking for matching files and documents.Greplin does the same thing but for your online data that you store on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Voice, Dropbox, Gmail and a bunch of other services. You can run a query and find public and private data on those sites. Tweets including DMs are shown as well as digging into the transcripts of your Google Voice voicemail.Greplin uses OAuth and other APIs for authorization, so they never see your third party credentials. Since Greplin’s searches work on a variety of online sites it is invaluable to the small business owner who does business online by saving them a lot of time locating the exact information they need when they need it.Greplin.com is in closed beta right now. Most of what Greplin offers will be free. A fee is charged for more features like searching within attachments. Below is a video illustrating how Greplin works. To register for Greplin go to https://www.greplin.com and pick the first index you’d like to use.Let us know how you envision you could use Greplin in your personal life and business.
Greplin Demo from greplin on Vimeo.
Greplin is a personal search engine for all the data you keep in the cloud. It works a lot like the desktop search Spotlight where you search for a word or phrase and Spotlight will go through your entire hard drive looking for matching files and documents.Greplin does the same thing but for your online data that you store on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Voice, Dropbox, Gmail and a bunch of other services. You can run a query and find public and private data on those sites. Tweets including DMs are shown as well as digging into the transcripts of your Google Voice voicemail.Greplin uses OAuth and other APIs for authorization, so they never see your third party credentials. Since Greplin’s searches work on a variety of online sites it is invaluable to the small business owner who does business online by saving them a lot of time locating the exact information they need when they need it.Greplin.com is in closed beta right now. Most of what Greplin offers will be free. A fee is charged for more features like searching within attachments. Below is a video illustrating how Greplin works. To register for Greplin go to https://www.greplin.com and pick the first index you’d like to use.Let us know how you envision you could use Greplin in your personal life and business.
Greplin Demo from greplin on Vimeo.
