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Posted by Orbital32 on Oct-14-2004 22:45:

google desktop search

This just came out today and i have to say it's pretty cool. It intergrates with google so that it looks like a regular google search page. Results are instant vs searching your computer through windows search. Also privacy policy looks good as well. worth a try!

http://desktop.google.com/screenshots.html

Posted by Orbital32 on Oct-15-2004 01:28:

let me check on my computer when i get home. it should finish indexing by the time i get home from school.

Posted by ShadoWolf on Oct-15-2004 01:29:

It begins...

Posted by smokeape on Oct-15-2004 01:32:

Re: google desktop search

quote:
Originally posted by Orbital32
This just came out today and i have to say it's pretty cool. It intergrates with google so that it looks like a regular google search page. Results are instant vs searching your computer through windows search. Also privacy policy looks good as well. worth a try!

http://desktop.google.com/screenshots.html

No thanks when I'm running popup blockers.

[[[smokeape]]]

Posted by Orbital32 on Oct-15-2004 01:34:

Re: Re: google desktop search

quote:
Originally posted by smokeape
No thanks when I'm running popup blockers.

[[[smokeape]]]

i'm running firefox with built in pop up blockers. there are no ads or pop ups.

Posted by Orbital32 on Oct-15-2004 03:27:

quote:
Originally posted by josh4
THEY ARE LYING OUT OF THEIR ASS. OF COURSE IT IS GOING TO EXCHANGE INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR COMPUTER WITH HEADQUARTERS! IF NOT NOW THEN THEY'LL PATCH IT IN LATER!!!

ugh huh. so you mean that they are going to lie on their privacy statement? You guys don't want to use it that's fine. the only thing i am saying that it finds what i need on my computer in a split second vs having to wait 2-3 minutes searching over 200GB.

Posted by starlabs on Oct-15-2004 06:05:

quote:
Originally posted by Nou
the only thing with that is it seems to specific to certain apps... say i use trillian and not normal AIM, would it still find stuff in convo's?

Nope, doesn't log/index Trillian logs unfortunately. Just AIM so far. And it doesn't log/index Mozilla, Firebird or any other alternate web browser. Just IE's cache is indexed.

However having it index your Outlook emails is pretty cool, since Outlook's search feature a) sucks, and b) is horridly slow