Google Desktop

[Leon Machado IV]

Gotta love google. They just rolled out Google Desktop v2 Beta. It's a wonderful little program.

[Brandon Martus]

The SideBar is one of the best I've ever used. It's got an iTunes controls plugin, photos slideshows (based off XML/RSS feeds, as well as locally on your computer), weather, news, scratch pad, system resouces, etc.

Nice.

Originally Posted by Leon Machado IV

Gotta love google. They just rolled out Google Desktop v2 Beta. It's a wonderful little program.

[Pat McCarthy]

I just downloaded it. It's already helped me when I needed to take a note really quick from a phone call.

It's still indexing my system though. I just wish that it would try to do that not just when my system is idle though.

I give it an "A" so far.

[Mike]

What's the difference between using this and the normal Windows search?

[Rohan_DHS]

Woah, this is cool I'm liking the whole sidebar thing

Originally Posted by Mike

What's the difference between using this and the normal Windows search?

Well Mike, I find that for one thing, its a heck of a lot faster than the normal Windows search, since windows searches for your file everytime, whereas Google Desktop indexes everything, so it just searches the index rather than scanning your comp everytime

And now with beta 2, the whole sidebar thing is totally cool, with weather (for US only, to my knowledge ) and emails, news, and photo slideshows and stuff like that...

All said and done, I guess it's really your personal opinion wether you like it or not.

[Pat McCarthy]

Originally Posted by Mike

What's the difference between using this and the normal Windows search?

Google Desktop indexes all of your files into an XML file, I believe, that tells where to find each file. In doing this it allows you to search your entire computer in a matter of seconds (less actually) instead of minutes. It is nearly exactly the same as the search that will be implemented in Windows Vista next year.

Edit: Rohan beat me to it.

[Rohan_DHS]

O cool, I didn't know that they (Microsoft) are planning on doing that..

[Ashley Weed]

I really enjoyed Google Desktop for the half hour I was able to run it. The news, photos, email, etc, was all nicely located compared to other similar programs that are made. However, with my powerful HP laptop, the heatsinks quickly turned the laptop off when it determined I was letting it overheat too much.

Another smaller/similar nice toolbar program is Google Deskbar. Similar to Firefoxes' Google Bar but it's in the taskbar.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by Rohan_DHS

Woah, this is cool I'm liking the whole sidebar thing



Well Mike, I find that for one thing, its a heck of a lot faster than the normal Windows search, since windows searches for your file everytime, whereas Google Desktop indexes everything, so it just searches the index rather than scanning your comp everytime

And now with beta 2, the whole sidebar thing is totally cool, with weather (for US only, to my knowledge ) and emails, news, and photo slideshows and stuff like that...

All said and done, I guess it's really your personal opinion wether you like it or not.

Sounds pretty cool, although I don't think I'll install it. Just something I don't think I really need.

Thanks for explaining it

[Rohan_DHS]

heh, no prob =D