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If provided the link to the document, after opening it the first time the document is now searchable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Considerations for the Google Drive Workspace Connector<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Adding &#8220;must have link to access&#8221; documents could expose documents that were only made public for ease of access and not truly public in terms of the knowledge<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The default setting in google does not make shared to domain documents searchable. so it could mean that truly public documents do not get indexed in GoSearch.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Irrespective of the type of workspace connector, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gosearch.ai\/help\/google-drive-personal-connector\/\">Google Drive Personal Connector <\/a>will pull the missing documents so that all information is available and respects google share permissions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You should now be able to report any GoSearch issues. 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