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Anyone Tried Google Desktop Search?
Author: greg15 Oct
I tried yesterday to get the Google Desktop Search to work, but of course, my laptop is filled to the brim and the beast requires 1GB – yes, 1GB – to install so I didn’t get past the warning that I was not worthy.
I’m really curious to hear from anyone that’s installed it and got some use out of it. Can you send screenshots? Tell me how effective it is?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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12 Responses for "Anyone Tried Google Desktop Search?"
I like the idea of desktop search, but clearly, Google’s implementation is kinda useless.
I totaly agree with Randy. Right now, due to the limited support of applications, I consider it useless but I believe it’s a good concept that just needs some improvements.
I’m just curious about who is going to use it. What kind of people is it aimed at?
At the moment it’s for IE users only…
IE users only = >90% of people. How is that useless?
Anyways, John Battelle has a good run down of it.
wow, i feel so ghetto for actually liking google desktop. i’m almost ashamed to admit i still use IE, Office, and Outlook… the triple whammy of techie shame.
How is it IE only? I use it in firefox on a regular basis..
Useless for me.
It works with IE as an interface, it doesn’t index pages viewed in other browsers.
http://www.nunomira.com/blog/index.php?p=106
JD on MX has a nice post regarding security (and privacy).
http://www.markme.com/jd/archives/006148.cfm
I installed it but some of it’s limitations really do take away alot of what I was expecting.
It would be nice if they would at least let you specify additional extensions to index (like cfm, cfc, etc) having a really fast means of searching across all my code could be useful at times.
I hadn’t realized it took 1 GIG to install. I may uninstall it now – my poor laptop can’t afford to give up that kind of space.
PS: your submission filter blocks me from submitting if i use a gmail email address. while I understand your intent; gmail is about all I use anymore. tis a shame I cant use it here.
Greg: I love GDS, and posted an overview of my experiences with it in my blog. Regarding the 1GB requirement… I’ve installed it on two different machines and haven’t received a warning like that… given how tiny GDS-the-application is, it must be looking at your drive and deciding that you don’t have enough space to make real use of things like the cache search.
nuno: Go install the Slogger extension for Firefox. Once you do that, you’ll be able to search your cache with GDS at will.
GDS takes less than 2M on my machine. Don’t remember a 1G warning.
It is NOT dependent on IE to run and will search using Firefox just fine. But… it only indexes IE cached web pages.
I’m not sure what privacy concerns there are – while the search results look like the main Google interface, the Desktop results are returned from a local web server and are NOT sent to Google. What I’m not sure of is what advantages we get by having this delivered by Google – the searches I use to find local files aren’t likely to be useful to me on the web and vice-versa.
In GDS, I miss the internal viewer as in CDS or X1. The ‘cached’ copy might solve the purpose but still nothing like a full blown renderer as in X1.
Has someone tried Filehand which claims to give google like search results ?
See my review of desktop seach tools here.
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2004/10/detailed-comparison-of-desktop-search.html
Amit
http://labnol.blogspot.com
FWIW, I tried X1 about six months ago, and was wholly unimpressed. I didn’t care for the interface, and uninstalled it a few days later. To me, part of the appeal of GDS is that it barely *has* an interface… it’s just Google, and that’s all I really need.
Google can’t even index PDF files. X1 is good though expensive. I prefer CDS.
http://labnol.blogspot.com
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