We would if it actually searched in contacts.google.com. I believe it did for a while and that it's supposed to, however it's been broken for a very long time.

Attached is a screenshot for my son's name. It doesn't even show a link to his G+ nor his Hangouts info.

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The feature broke as the result of a server side issue, but even before the breakage it doesn't look as though anyone was using it. So much so that it broke and no one noticed.

We have a few options:
1: Invest in it to figure out what it would take to get people using it.
2: Fix the server issue and add tests to prevent future breakage.
3: Kill it.

We discussed it internally. Summary
Given the number and importance of other things we could do with that effort #1 doesn't make sense right now. #2 also doesn't make sense; why fix something that wont see use?

So that leaves #3.

Umm we did notice but...I agree with #3, there are many more important issues.

xiaoyinh@ can you take this one on? Talk to glevin@ about how to do it.

Just so we're on the same page, this is the main class we're talking about removing, right?

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/chrome/browser/ui/app_list/search/people/people_result.h

+rkc@ , the original code author

Quite a few changes were made to support people search, that is one of the classes. Please look at this CL https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/23874015 to get an idea of what all we might want to get rid of and revert and what we'd want to keep.

Is there a piece of this feature that is still working? That could help later to tell whether it's been removed or not.
 

Start looking into it.

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/1333573b1f5535417caa9e4d41ba2872cf14e9cd

commit 1333573b1f5535417caa9e4d41ba2872cf14e9cd
Author: xiaoyinh <xiaoyinh@chromium.org>
Date: Tue May 03 17:17:21 2016

Remove people search

BUG= 601233 

Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/1925733005
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#391276}

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The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/caf741145de00dbc1cf7f13e8fbb3a011f606aeb

commit caf741145de00dbc1cf7f13e8fbb3a011f606aeb
Author: xiaoyinh <xiaoyinh@chromium.org>
Date: Thu May 05 00:40:00 2016

Remove HangoutsPrivate API

BUG= 601233 

Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/1951783003
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#391720}

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First CL: Remove people search
Second CL: Remove HangoutsPrivate 

 Issue 306672  has been merged into this issue.