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| loconet |
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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| d!abolic |
Damn, that's pretty useful
Edit: Won't work cuz of my router :( |
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| Orko |
| 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?:conf: :conf: |
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| d!abolic |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orko
how does your router stop you from being able to use it?:conf: :conf: |
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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| Orko |
| 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? |
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| AwakenedAddict |
| Probably tries to establish an external connection to report user statistics... :-/ |
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| loconet |
| quote: | 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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| 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. |
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| St_Andrew |
| 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. |
Google has teh programmers :toocool: |
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| DigiNut |
| 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! :p
But the GD actually does look like an interesting program. I like how you can actually opt out of the data transmission. :p |
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