Gemini API File Search is now multimodal

(blog.google)

59 points | by gmays 3 hours ago

3 comments

  • FrequentLurker 2 hours ago
    This might be great and all but I am still miffed at how simple search on AI Studio is. You can only search the titles of your conversations and nothing inside them. On top of that they messed with the scrolling so Ctrl+F doesn't work reliably.
    • qingcharles 6 minutes ago
      I've come across a few weird search issues like this with Google lately. Entire company built on the best search engine ever created; can't do search properly in their apps.
    • pants2 36 minutes ago
      It's incredible how far behind Gemini has gotten, both the product and the model. Even the ChatGPT plugin for Google Sheets blows away the native Gemini integration.

      Everyone thought Google was pulling ahead with Gemini 3. For a minute there they had the best language model, image model, AND video model in the world. But it's like they decided to pull over for a nap while OpenAI and Anthropic flew by.

      • wilj 14 minutes ago
        I just cancelled my Gemini subscription yesterday. I have a big private fork of OpenCode, and I did it the wrong way to start with, so I couldn't pull from upstream.

        So I put together a plan for refactoring it, step by step, with tests, etc. After literally 8 solid days of fighting with Gemini 3 Pro, I still couldn't pull it off.

        I gave GPT 5.5 a chance with the same prompt, plans, and repo. I'm not sure how long it took, but when I checked in on it a few hours later it was done. All tests passed, everything exactly how I'd asked, and better (it made some improvements).

    • stingraycharles 1 hour ago
      Yeah, it’s surprising, Claude Desktop has had project files since decades which are chunked/indexed and automatically injected into your context based on the topic.

      You’d think this would be fairly obvious for Google to do, but it’s probably an organizational problem rather than a technical one.

    • greesil 2 hours ago
      Too bad they can't just easily vibe code new features.
  • WindyBolt907 3 hours ago
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  • Owen_Silva 1 hour ago
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