Thursday, October 14, 2004
Google Desktop Search Download
You can now get Google for your desktop. A quick download gets you a Google app that runs very nicely as a local web service, so you get to it just the same way as you get to Google main - through your web browser. It claims to index files, emails, web history, and chat sessions. At the moment, it's indexing my hard drive - I'll let you how I get on...
UPDATE: this really is a fantastically useful addition to my PC. the integration with Google's web search is great, and I can now search my emails and view threaded conversations much more easily than I ever could in Outlook. And the web history search has already helped with me that "what was that thing I looked at the other day?" problem. My only concern is just how reliant on Google I might become - I already have it as my homepage, I have the IE toolbar, and the deskbar, and now I have the desktop search. one day Google might want money for these things... well OK maybe not since they're already rolling in it but what happens when they decide they want to start using my personal data for marketing? if I'm dependent on their products already, I'm more likely to agree...
You can now get Google for your desktop. A quick download gets you a Google app that runs very nicely as a local web service, so you get to it just the same way as you get to Google main - through your web browser. It claims to index files, emails, web history, and chat sessions. At the moment, it's indexing my hard drive - I'll let you how I get on...
UPDATE: this really is a fantastically useful addition to my PC. the integration with Google's web search is great, and I can now search my emails and view threaded conversations much more easily than I ever could in Outlook. And the web history search has already helped with me that "what was that thing I looked at the other day?" problem. My only concern is just how reliant on Google I might become - I already have it as my homepage, I have the IE toolbar, and the deskbar, and now I have the desktop search. one day Google might want money for these things... well OK maybe not since they're already rolling in it but what happens when they decide they want to start using my personal data for marketing? if I'm dependent on their products already, I'm more likely to agree...
Comments:
It looks like an interesting idea but personally i'm waiting out for Spotlight which not only searching through files by name but put modified and created dates so you can search for HCI 2004 and find only related files (how searching should be)
you can see it in action here
you can see it in action here
I agree. Spotlight is going to really hit the spot. It's a technique which, I believe, we will definitely see many copies of over the coming years. I think that this sort of technology is the way to go when it comes to organisation.
From a HCI perspective, I can see how both Spotlight and Google are going to really aid the development of explorer/finder/nautilus. In that file management is not going to necessarily be just for the experienced and organised power user but also for the novice. I'll sit back and wait to see what developments the different OS platforms can produce.
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From a HCI perspective, I can see how both Spotlight and Google are going to really aid the development of explorer/finder/nautilus. In that file management is not going to necessarily be just for the experienced and organised power user but also for the novice. I'll sit back and wait to see what developments the different OS platforms can produce.
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