Topic Archive: Google calendar

Google Calendar: Finally, a search box that makes sense

Brian Dillard, Monday, July 28, 2008 @ 4:31 pm

I've been complaining for months about a usability problem with Google Calendar's default search behavior, so I figure I should document that it's finally been fixed. Ever since gCal introduced the concept of public calendars, hitting "enter" in the global search box has kicked off a trawl through the public-calendar database. Instead of searching MY OWN calendar for, say, my Aunt Donna's birthday, gCal instead searches public calendars of, like, sports schedules and Kazakhstanian bank holidays. Smart.

Now, though, that behavior seems to have been flipped. "Search My Calendars" is now the default action, while "Search Public Calendars" has become the secondary action. Bravo!

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