We're sneaking out another new feature just before the new year: support for Gmail Chats.

This won't happen automatically. To enable this feature you must make sure "Show in IMAP" is enabled for Chats in your Gmail settings. Here are the steps to start getting your Gmail chats indexed on Greplin: 

- Login to Gmail

- Click the Gmail gear icon in the upper right corner

- Click "Mail Settings"

- Select the "Labels" Tab

- Next to "Chats" click "Show in IMAP"

Let us know if you encounter any hiccups. 

Matthaeus, Aaron, David and the whole Greplin team have done some major work on the iPhone App design. We hope these changes make it even easier to find what you're looking for as quickly as possible. 

First, you'll notice that search results are a little more organized and easy to scan:

Then if you drill down to one of your items, say a calendar event, you'll see a whole new organization of your data. The name of the event, start/end time, creator and neccesary details:

If you tap an email result, you'll see a whole new layout, with Greplin Highlights in blue. We extract the important phone numbers and email addresses so they're just one tap away. 

And while you're at it, don't forget to enable your iPhone Contacts. This means that all the contacts in your iPhone will become searchable on Greplin. Just go to "Settings" and switch "iPhone Contacts" to "ON". 

We've been so busy cranking out these new features and design changes that we've had to choose where we spend our time and energy. We've decided to sunset (for now) one of our earlier projects that has been very time-consuming to maintain, the Gmail Search Extension. Starting now, you'll no longer see the little cloud inside your Gmail search bar. This will allow us to spend all our time and energy on improving the Greplin search experience. 

So while you're busy eating and drinking this holiday season, take a second to add those iPhone contacts, update your Greplin App, and tell us what you think! 

(And if you haven't downloaded the Greplin App... do it now!)

Greplin users love the simplicity that comes from making information searchable in a single place - we constantly get messages with suggestions for new account types that should be included. We get so many requests that we added a poll here to collect feedback:

http://help.greplin.com/customer/portal/articles/215227

But those messages are nothing compared to the amount of feedback we have received about Google Apps accounts being Premium. Many of you are using Google Apps for your personal email account and aren't a business customer.  Many users with Google Apps Mail accounts are university students.  On top of that, a number of users found the difference between a Gmail account and Google Apps account to be confusing.

Our primary goal is to make Greplin accessible to as many people as possible. So in response to this feedback, we're implementing this change immediately. Google Apps Mail, Docs, Calendar and Contacts are now part of the basic Greplin Free package.

Here's the full list of accounts you can now link to Greplin for free:

• Gmail
• Google Docs
• Google Calendar
• Google Contacts
• Google Apps Mail
• Google Apps Docs
• Google Apps Calendar
• Google Apps Contacts
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Dropbox
• LinkedIn

Premium users can link all of the above, plus:

• Evernote
• Yammer
• Salesforce
• Basecamp
• Highrise
• Campfire
• Google Reader
• Delicious
• Pinboard
• Tumblr
• Reddit

We hope this means that even more people can make their life instantly organized with Greplin. Please let us know if you've got any comments/questions/concerns. We love to hear them!

P.S. If the only premium indexes you have linked to Greplin are Google Apps accounts you will be downgraded to a Free account automatically and will no longer be charged.  Yearly members will also receive a refund for the remainder of the year.  If you upgraded via iPhone, you'll need to cancel your subscription manually. Instructions are available here: http://help.greplin.com/customer/portal/articles/197742

Have you noticed Greplin looking a little nicer lately? More modern? Maybe even... glamorous?

This is because, after a year of searching, we have finally found Greplin's first designer: Matthaeus Krenn. 

Matthaeus began his studies as an Industrial Designer in Austria, but quickly turned his clean and minimal design aesthetic into a degree in Interaction Design and Technology. He's worked for IDEO, frog design and even Microsoft. He loves cheese pizza, sachertorte, and schooling us in Unreal Tournament. He's been here 2 months you'll see more and more of his new designs across our website and iPhone app soon. And check out the awesome t-shirt he designed for our 2nd all night hackathon. That's him on the left with his arms crossed looking very cranky we haven't eaten the cake yet.

Matthaeus isn't our only new hire this quarter. Also joining the team is recent grad Pratik Tandel. In the last year he's interned at Facebook making your friend's photos load faster, completed his B.E. in Computer Engineering and done a cross continent move from Mumbai to SF. He's a bit shy, but he's slowly warming up to our office dogs, Eva and Ada. We even managed to convince him to join us for a misfit Thanksgiving dinner, although he did admit it wasn't spicy enough. Pratik is now writing code to index a new service. We'll announce that soon, but for now we can assure you it'll fulfill a big user request! Here you can see his why-are-you-taking-my-picture face"

Matthaeus and Pratik bring our total number of employees up to 12! But we're still looking to hire at least 2 more people. Check out the job openings on our recently redesigned jobs page (thanks Matthaeus!).

Multilingual Greplin users rejoice! We've added 2 new language-specific search features!

First, we've added the ability to narrow your Greplin searches by language. Just add "language:__" to any query. 

Looking for only French emails from Stefan? Search "stefan lang:fr"

Or maybe you'd prefer to remove all the German language results? Try "mike -lang:de", and you'll get everything except German documents. 

We're supporting over 40 language codes (including fi, he, hi, id, sv, vi and more). Here's the full list of supported language codes.

This is a new feature for us, so there still may be a few quirks. It's much harder to identify the correct language of small documents, like tweets and Facebook statuses, so you may see some incorrect results for smaller items. Results may also differ when an email or message contains multiple languages.

Our second new language feature is "accent-and-character folding". This is somewhat similar to transliteration, meaning that words with accents that aren't present on standard North American keyboards will be searchable with or without the accent. Here are some examples:

groß -> gross

Stjørdal -> Stjordal

fête -> fete

This works in reverse as well. A search for 'fete' will also return results with 'fête'.

We hope these new Greplin features make it even easier to get what you need quickly. Please send us any and all feedback as you test out our new features!

When you add a Dropbox service to Greplin, you'll be able to search through more than just the title and file name. Now, the entire text content of pdfs, docs and spreadsheets are completely indexed and searchable.

New Greplin users will see this feature automatically.

If you signed up for Greplin before October 2011, we're rolling out this functionality to you over the next few weeks.

If you just can't wait, you can start searching within Dropbox now by following by removing and re-adding your Dropbox data source. You can do so by going to greplin.com/settings#indexes. Click on your old Dropbox service, then hit "delete this index". Now re-add your Dropbox service and you can search within files as soon as your index is complete.   

Let us know what you think of this new feature by emailing support@greplin.com

Happy In-File Searching!

It's been our biggest request for months and it's finally here! If you've already registered for Greplin, just download the app and login. Or, new users can create an account through the App. It's specifically designed for searching on the go. 

We want the Greplin iPhone app to minimize the things that typically make the mobile experience painful:

- Typing 

- Scanning 

- Waiting

And here's how we think we've done it:

After logging into the app, you'll automatically see Suggested Searches which are pulled from your calendar events and recently searched terms. (Facebook and email events coming soon) This should lead to less typing and more clicking. 

We've also added Greplin Highlights. Once you find the email/event/tweet/file you were looking for, open it up and you'll see all your important information is automatically pulled out at the top of the result. Now you can identify crucial information like phone numbers and addresses at a glance. 

Oh and we've done everything humanly possible to make it fast. Really fast. We download only the information you need, so you can quickly get what you want. Most of the time, you don't even have to leave the App to get it.

So download it now and save huge amounts of time later. Let us know if we've hit the mark. Does the Greplin App make searching on-the-go easier?

Day 1:

- Arrive at our SOMA office [Optional: Stop by the Grilled Cheese Kitchen for tasty breakfast sandwich made of cheese and pig]

- Greet your new coworkers and ogle your shiny giant Mac cinema display

- Eat a free lunch catered by ZeroCater [Optional: Regret choice to stop at Grilled Cheese Kitchen for tasty breakfast sandwich]

- Enjoy schwag: Magnetic BuckyBalls and Greplin t-shirt

- Commit code your first day

Day 2:

- Repeat steps of Day 1

- Go on a Greplin adventure

If you're one of our newest hires, Mike Cvet or Peter Scott, you don't get to settle in for very long before we're out the door for some company bonding.

Mike stepped off the plane from Canada, hacked a bit, ate some lunch, and then the whole team went straight to the House of Air. It's a trampoline park in Crissy Field with huge trampolines for free bouncing and even a trampoline dodgeball court. We soon regretted hiring Mike because he destroyed us all, forcing us to acknowledge the truth of the cliche that, yes, we were all the last picked in dodgeball as children. Mike later revealed that Kung Fu and Cross Fit are his hobbies (information that would have been incredibly valuable pre-dodgeball). He also takes pretty great panoramic pictures and has explored every nook and cranny of the city in under 3 months. He's a great hacker out of University of Toronto, bringing incredible skills to our search and document analysis efforts. And bonus, he lets us make fun of his very slight Canadian accent. At this point, we're beginning to wonder what Mike can't do. 

You can see Mike standing triumphantly in the middle.

On Peter Scott's first day we took everyone to a Giants game at AT&T park. Silicon Valley Bank supplied us with a fancy suite and infinite snacks. We even managed to watch some of the game despite all the free-flowing food and beverages.

Mild mannered Peter never ceases to amaze us with mysterious clues about his past in the faraway land of Iowa. Want to go hiking on Angel Island, Peter? Why yes, I'm an expert hiker. Have you ever traveled abroad, Peter? Why yes, I spent a semester in Taiwan and I don't speak a word of Taiwanese. Want to play poker Peter? Why yes, I've never played, but I almost just won the whole game. He joined us right after finishing his Masters at Iowa State where he worked on everything from crypto, to web apps to bioinformatics. Now he's making sense of our billions of documents. In fact, we are also beginning to wonder what Peter can't do...

And here's Peter looking like he's wondering what he's gotten himself into:

Day 3 - 5:

- Repeat as many steps from Day 1 as you can manage [Caution: you may be a little tired]

Oh, and have we mentioned that we're hiring? 

Since launch, we've learned that Greplin users are power users. More than a few have maxed out the size limit on their Gmail accounts. Some feared that even the compressed and indexed version of their data wouldn't fit within Greplin's size limits. So here's an easy fix: the Greplin space limit is now 10GB for all users. This is many times more space than even our most active Grepliners are currently using. It also leaves lots of room to grow.  

No more space limits means no more Premium Plus plan. If you already signed up for Greplin Premium Plus, we've refunded the price difference between Premium and Premium Plus. (email support@greplin.com if you don't see the refund)

Now Greplin comes in just two flavors: Free and Premium. The only difference between Greplin Premium and Greplin Free is the data sources.

Gmail
Google Docs
Google Calendar
Facebook
Twitter
Dropbox
LinkedIn

Greplin Premium:
Google Apps Mail
Google Apps Calendar
Google Apps Docs
Salesforce
Yammer
Basecamp
Evernote
Google Reader - unlockable
Del.icio.us - unlockable

Yes, you read correctly. We've added 2 new Unlockable Data Sources:

Google Reader
and
Del.icio.us

Bummed these new sources are Premium? Never fear, we've made them Unlockable. You can unlock Google Reader and Delicious by inviting friends to Greplin. 

How does it work?
1. Invite a friend to try Greplin
2. Your friend accepts by clicking the link in the invitation
3. Your friend registers and adds at least one data source
4. You both get a free Unlockable source. Choose from Google Reader or Del.icio.us 

Easy as that!
Or, if you really want to add del.icio.us or Google Reader to Greplin without inviting anyone, just sign up for Greplin Premium and you'll get access to every available data source.

We hope these changes will make Greplin more useful and shareable. Let us know what you think by emailing support@greplin.com

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