Comments on: Google desktop search is a disappointment http://geekfun.com/2004/10/14/google-desktop-search-is-a-disappointment/ You can do anything, but you can't do everything. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:04:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: bobby writeo http://geekfun.com/2004/10/14/google-desktop-search-is-a-disappointment/#comment-7 bobby writeo Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.geekfun.com/wordpress/?p=409#comment-7 Have you even bothered to install it and see what it can pull up on your system? As with most journalists eager to publish before another source beats them to the punch, you seem to have a lot to say without any substantive examples to provide. I dont use outlook either, and because I know how to keep my system clean (unlike 80% of the so-called hip but unsavvy Mozilla switchers out there) -I can still use IE without any problems. So why switch? Anything I open in IE seems to be fair game for caching. This includes my yahoo, Aol, gmail, aim chats, aol chats. It also pulls up virtually all my text oriented files, ie. word, wordperfect, old school write, text, html files, etc. The average user, (and even M$ exclusionary whiner) could easily find this program as useful as I have. Now if they could only index PDF and let me index multiple drives, i'd be golden!! It's beta for cryin out loud, give it a try! Have you even bothered to install it and see what it can pull up on your system? As with most journalists eager to publish before another source beats them to the punch, you seem to have a lot to say without any substantive examples to provide.

I dont use outlook either, and because I know how to keep my system clean (unlike 80% of the so-called hip but unsavvy Mozilla switchers out there) -I can still use IE without any problems. So why switch?

Anything I open in IE seems to be fair game for caching. This includes my yahoo, Aol, gmail, aim chats, aol chats. It also pulls up virtually all my text oriented files, ie. word, wordperfect, old school write, text, html files, etc. The average user, (and even M$ exclusionary whiner) could easily find this program as useful as I have. Now if they could only index PDF and let me index multiple drives, i’d be golden!! It’s beta for cryin out loud, give it a try!

]]> By: eas http://geekfun.com/2004/10/14/google-desktop-search-is-a-disappointment/#comment-8 eas Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.geekfun.com/wordpress/?p=409#comment-8 I've known pretty much exactly what I wanted in a local search app for at least two years. The Google beta is falling short in my chosen environment, so I wrote about it. I have tried it. Index build times seem really good, and I'm impressed with how quickly it returns results while maintaining such a modest memory footprint. BTW, why the need to insult me? I’ve known pretty much exactly what I wanted in a local search app for at least two years. The Google beta is falling short in my chosen environment, so I wrote about it.

I have tried it. Index build times seem really good, and I’m impressed with how quickly it returns results while maintaining such a modest memory footprint.

BTW, why the need to insult me?

]]> By: sushubh http://geekfun.com/2004/10/14/google-desktop-search-is-a-disappointment/#comment-9 sushubh Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.geekfun.com/wordpress/?p=409#comment-9 errm... as long as the cache is stored in html format, google would cache it. right? :D and thunderbird saves mails in text format :D... not exactly how it works with outlook... hence still not good enough. but then, it's a preview release. :) and google improves things with time. instead of bloating it! errm… as long as the cache is stored in html format, google would cache it. right? :D and thunderbird saves mails in text format :D… not exactly how it works with outlook… hence still not good enough.

but then, it’s a preview release. :) and google improves things with time. instead of bloating it!

]]> By: josh http://geekfun.com/2004/10/14/google-desktop-search-is-a-disappointment/#comment-10 josh Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.geekfun.com/wordpress/?p=409#comment-10 Sorry, that's www.gigaom.com link here:http://www.gigaom.com/2004/10/google_desktop_v.php Sorry, that’s http://www.gigaom.com link here:http://www.gigaom.com/2004/10/google_desktop_v.php

]]> By: eas http://geekfun.com/2004/10/14/google-desktop-search-is-a-disappointment/#comment-11 eas Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.geekfun.com/wordpress/?p=409#comment-11 sushubh: As I noted in my post this morning, I thought that GDS might index my Firefox cache as well as my Thunderbird mailbox since both are indexed file types. I experimented though, and it hasn't done it, even though it seems to have completed its indexing run. It's probably just as well. As I recall, Thunderbird stores things as MBOX files, which amounts to one flat file per mailfolder. If I did get a hit, the summary might show me the content I wanted, but I'd have to go to a bit of trouble to find the matching section when it opened the file. It might be happy in some cases to have it index my cache as ordinary HTML, but in general, I'd really like the context of knowing what site the page was from when I look at the summary. sushubh: As I noted in my post this morning, I thought that GDS might index my Firefox cache as well as my Thunderbird mailbox since both are indexed file types. I experimented though, and it hasn’t done it, even though it seems to have completed its indexing run.

It’s probably just as well. As I recall, Thunderbird stores things as MBOX files, which amounts to one flat file per mailfolder. If I did get a hit, the summary might show me the content I wanted, but I’d have to go to a bit of trouble to find the matching section when it opened the file.

It might be happy in some cases to have it index my cache as ordinary HTML, but in general, I’d really like the context of knowing what site the page was from when I look at the summary.

]]> By: Deb http://geekfun.com/2004/10/14/google-desktop-search-is-a-disappointment/#comment-12 Deb Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.geekfun.com/wordpress/?p=409#comment-12 " Now if they could only index PDF and let me index multiple drives, i'd be golden!! " -- I've found that GDS caches files I've opened from our network drives, and links to the file directly if you should want to open it. That may work for a multiple hard drive config. Have faith... Google is great at improving their product. Also, TELL them where they can improve. As a developer (not for Google), feedback is crucial! http://desktop.google.com/support/bin/request.py ” Now if they could only index PDF and let me index multiple drives, i’d be golden!! ”
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I’ve found that GDS caches files I’ve opened from our network drives, and links to the file directly if you should want to open it. That may work for a multiple hard drive config.

Have faith… Google is great at improving their product. Also, TELL them where they can improve. As a developer (not for Google), feedback is crucial!
http://desktop.google.com/support/bin/request.py

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