← Measured in the wild

cloudsearch.googleapis.com

classified as first-party · 2

This page aggregates measured, corroborated evidence: donors' iPhones recorded apps contacting this domain, every claim below was reported by separate accepted donations and published under a human verdict (later rows for an approved app inherit its verdict). A contact is a measurement, not an accusation — it does not show what data was sent.

What our research panel found AI-drafted · human-reviewed

We ask several independent AI models the same question and publish their answers separately — cross-vendor agreement is evidence against fabrication, and disagreement is worth seeing. 3 of 3 models answered, overall confidence high. A human reviewed this domain's claims before anything here published.

Anthropic Claude — first-party

cloudsearch.googleapis.com is a Google-operated googleapis.com API endpoint (Google Cloud Search), so for a Google-published app like Gmail this is first-party infrastructure rather than a third-party tracker. The app's label already declares collecting in-app search history, emails, and files and docs, which covers a search-query data flow to its own backend.

OpenAI — first-party

cloudsearch.googleapis.com is a Google API domain and is plausibly used for Gmail search-related functionality. Gmail's label declares collection of in-app search history and extensive related account, content, and usage data, so this contact is not clearly outside the declared flows.

Google Gemini — first-party

cloudsearch.googleapis.com is an API endpoint operated by Google to provide search functionality within its apps, making this a first-party service domain. The app declares extensive data collection including in-app search history, so this contact does not appear undisclosed.

Apps measured contacting this domain

AppLabel gapDonationsContactsSeen
Gmail3212026-07-30

The corpus grows one report at a time: donate your App Privacy Report — anonymous by design.

Think something here is wrong?

Evidence and research improve when people push back. Tell us what to re-check — a misattributed domain, an outdated classification, a claim about your own app — and a human will review it. Responses can take up to 30 days.

If you leave an email it is encrypted at rest and opened only to answer you — never shared, never used for anything else. It is erased 30 days after we resolve this (or 180 days if it is still open) without you asking, and you can erase it sooner at any time; either way your correction stays, anonymously. Leave it blank and your request is fully anonymous from the start (we store no IP address either way).