So I waiting for some compiling to be finished at work, I got bored and was checking out Google Labs. I noticed they have a new toy out... Google Desktop Search (http://desktop.google.com/) - It apparently lets you search your own computer files (chats, e-mails, word files, etc) . If it works as good as the main google search engine, it will surely beat MS's own indexing service .

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Last edited by loconet on Oct-14-2004 at 14:54

Damn, that's pretty useful

Edit: Won't work cuz of my router

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Originally posted by d!abolic Damn, that's pretty useful Edit: Won't work cuz of my router

how does your router stop you from being able to use it?

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Originally posted by Orko how does your router stop you from being able to use it?

This thing sets up a local server that gathers all the needed information, then connects to it. The router blocks the connection. I got an error message saying i should reconfigure my firewall/proxy.

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Originally posted by d!abolic This thing sets up a local server that gathers all the needed information, then connects to it. The router blocks the connection. I got an error message saying i should reconfigure my firewall/proxy.

i dont get it, this search doesnt just do the search on your comp? it makes a list and exports to a external source and searches through that?

Probably tries to establish an external connection to report user statistics... :-/

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Originally posted by AwakenedAddict Probably tries to establish an external connection to report user statistics... :-/

It does. Stats regarding crashes on the program itself, etc (ie: non personal data). You can opt out of this feature when setting up the program.

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The most amazing thing about that proggie is it's size - less than 500K. It's been a while since I've seen a useful program which download size has been this small.

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Originally posted by Durafei The most amazing thing about that proggie is it's size - less than 500K. It's been a while since I've seen a useful program which download size has been this small.

Google has teh programmers

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Originally posted by Durafei The most amazing thing about that proggie is it's size - less than 500K. It's been a while since I've seen a useful program which download size has been this small.

What about anything from grc.com - the guy writes all his stuff in asm, spinrite is under 100k and has already saved my hard drive once!

But the GD actually does look like an interesting program. I like how you can actually opt out of the data transmission.

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