Online services are very popular nowadays. And many of them are very useful. The drawback is the difficulty to retrieve a specific information among all this services. The solution is Greplin which will index all your private data hosted in the Cloud.

If you are like me and use regularly many online services (few gmail accounts, Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, google agenda, google docs, drop box, Evernote, delicious, campfire, etc.), you have a lot of data spread in the Cloud. Some times I don’t remember where is stored a specific data. For example, you search an old message with a good idea inside but you don’t remember if it was an email, a message on Facebook or Linkedin ? All  those online services are independent and you have to sign-in each one until you find the information. Thanks to Greplin, this is over ! It’s a search engine which index only your personal data hosted online. You can use it to make quick search like Google.

First you have to sign-up, then you will give access to the services you want to index. Most of them are free of charge, some are unlockable with an “invite friend” feature, and the last one are available only if you pay the Premium upgrade ($4.99/month).

Greplin supported services

Greplin will index your data and then you will be able to search by using the web interface or an iPhone application or a Chrome extension.

Greplin web GUI

Greplin iPhone app

Greplin has really change the way I use Cloud services. I regret the service is only in English and I hope there will be more services. If you want you can give your voice for your prefered services by voting on this page of the Greplin’s support.

Tell me what you think about Greplin in the comments.

PS : to give you transparency, the link used to reach Greplin on this post have an invitation tag. It allows to unlock one of the services for the visitor who click the link and for me.

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