Users can plug in their credentials for Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, and a host of other popular Web services, and create a search engine capable of sifting through all manner of personal documents, contacts, and calendar items. It’s like Google for your private life.
Greplin has a “freemium” model: The basic service is gratis, but if users want to search business apps such as Salesforce (CRM) they must pay $5 per month or $50 per year. An iPhone app released in August adds a “suggested search” function to predict what people want based on their physical location and the date and time. When you’re on the way to a business lunch, the app will guess where you’re going based on your calendar appointments and automatically offer up the LinkedIn profile of the person you’re meeting.
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