niket 0 Report post Posted December 16, 2004 *Google Desktop Search Today I downloaded Google Desktop Search just 446Kb size. just after installation it started to crawling my PC. after some hours it maped all my desktop. its uses very low valuable PC resource. I think its an useful utility for any geek. just look at following link to better use it. http://desktop.google.com/ http://users.tns.net/~skingery/firefox/GDS_Tips.html http://www.airbearsoftware.com/gdsuite/home Go.. Get your personal google. To get some idea.. pls look at following screenshots. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
anujit 0 Report post Posted December 16, 2004 Yes its terrific I have been using it for quite a while. But dont install it on any shared machine! There are big privacy issues since this scans all your emails even secure web pages etc. so if you have any passwords in your emails, accessed secure banking etc sites and so forth another person using your pc can search and retrieve all that in 0.51 seconds! http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/conte...09032_mz006.htm I'm a very pro Google person! And actively support google's Ad Sense etc that they use in Gmail etc. But this is something that everyone should be aware of! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chirag 5 Report post Posted December 16, 2004 Its like a "search" utility for the PC? Something similar to what MS adds to its OS, right? As of now, Desktop searches thru only 4 types of File Types i.e. Word, Excel, PPT & Emails. So does that mean, it wudn't search other types like CDR, DWG? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rEdshiFt 1 Report post Posted December 16, 2004 theres GOTTA be something basically different between the MS "search" we do our pc and the "search" we do on the web.... I mean, any websearch(not jus google) brings up millions of results in a second or two... WHEREAS,the pc's "search for files/folders" takes ~10 mins to search a 40GB HDD...ever wondered about that ? surely, different search technologies these...and i think google desktop kinda hybrids the two...and ijus LUV hybrids Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ashokjp 15 Report post Posted December 16, 2004 Well google desktop search keeps a index of all the files. and searches in the index when we instruct. While in windows search, it starts a new search scanning each file, each time we give a new search. Guess Google desktop search also supports mp3 and exe files, as i was able to get such files in result. Its damn fast. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chirag 5 Report post Posted December 16, 2004 These days everybody wants good Speeds. And thats wht google has very well understood! Interesting things by them! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
