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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Oct-14-2004 14:43
d!abolic
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Damn, that's pretty useful
Edit: Won't work cuz of my router
Oct-14-2004 15:23
Orko
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Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
quote:
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?
Oct-14-2004 16:55
d!abolic
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quote:
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.
Oct-14-2004 17:48
Orko
Digital Hippie
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
quote:
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?
Oct-14-2004 18:18
AwakenedAddict
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Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Berkeley, California
Probably tries to establish an external connection to report user statistics... :-/
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Oct-14-2004 18:29
loconet
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Registered: Jul 2002
Location: San Francisco
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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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Oct-14-2004 18:33
Durafei
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Location: San Francisco, California
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.
Oct-14-2004 19:16
St_Andrew
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Registered: May 2003
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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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
Oct-14-2004 22:15
DigiNut
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Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Toronto, Self-proclaimed Centre of the Universe
quote:
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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