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Full Contact Search: Search all the fields of your Gmail contacts

I’ve created a new Web site called Full Contact Search using Google App Engine that allows you to search all fields from your Gmail contacts, not just name and e-mail. Check it out at http://fullcontactsearch.appspot.com.

When Google upgraded to a new version of its contact manager, it bizarrely took away the ability to search fields like “notes” and “company.” For anyone who files people by company or puts contact “tags” in the notes field like I do, this was a major inconvenience. One work around to this problem is to open up the old version of Gmail (just type ?ui=1 after the gmail url) and use that contact manager, but who knows how long that’s going to be around.

So, until Google comes out with the be-all, end-all of contact managers, this Web site should serve as a nice holdover.

UPDATE: I’ve posted the source code with some notes. Based on my experience, I think some of Google App Engine’s tutorials need updating.

© 2008 Ryan Pfister.