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Google Experiments With Local Filesystem Search
Teoti writes "No, Puffin is not the next name of your favorite email client, but, according to the New York Times (NSA reg. req.), the project codename for a new Google search application coming directly into your desktop, that will let you search your local filesystem efficiently. This is different from, but complementary of, the Google DeskBar that already lets you search the Web. The article also gives a few words on the end of the stand alone browser in Longhorn."
Will Google's search application functions feature Clippy? Or that damned animated XP Dog?
...exactly what "local filesystem image search" will return.
Finally, a way to effectively search through my gigabytes of pr0n!
Google will also be able to catalogue the contents of your refrigerator, medicine cabinet, and be able to tell you your car keys are between the couch cushions.
Perhaps I do not realize the full potential of the Find utility in Windows, but MAN does it suck.
Do you love freedom??? Do you love freedom!!! DO YOU LOVE FREEDOM!!!!!!!!
Why grep not working for ya?
Sigs? We don't need no stinking sigs!
However, I'm still waiting for my Google XP 3000+ processor,, Google H1 4wd, Google-Cola Light and McGoogle hamburger.
No
Seems to be like a rehash of the AltaVista Desktop search ...
:-)
I keep looking at Google and thinking "wow, this is just like AltaVista, without the death spiral!"
a search of localhost
weird huh?
Their insurgence into all aspects of our technology is scaring me. Then again it would be nice to have an index of everything so we could do a verbal search for common everyday items:
"Google, find my car keys."
"Thank you sir,
Google World has located them at:
right where you left them when you came home smashed at 2:30am last night from the titty bars."
Google should ask Microsoft for information it has to provide according to the antitrust settlement so that Google's own program can interoperate with Windows as good as Microsoft's!
Is it me or they just trying to really dumb down computers?
I have 100 gigs on my server and I can find shit I put in there 5 years ago in about 2 minutes or less. I guess some people just aren't organized ;-)
Is this next? http://ergopod.ca/images/googlekeys1.jpg
This image was on fark but I can't find it now. See how long before my server gets /.'d
I'm not anti-social, I'm anti-idiot.
Once you have a directory of the contents of everyone's harddrive, you're halfway to one hell of a peer-to-peer network.
Now, when Google can tell me where I put my keys, then I'll be impressed.
I hope the image search will include a "safe mode" like the "real" google image search to filter out explicit nudity. I mean - my girlfriend uses my computer as well - and if she found those pictures I've stored in " ./ ../. /ex-girlfriends/" I'm toast.
I mean - if this was on a *nix system, it would index only the files I've got read permissions to. But on a windows system, there's no such (working) thing, so it would index everything. Could this pose a problem in a multiuser environment? Not to mention temporary files?
By the way - my girlfriend doesn't read slashdot.
"NYT claims the Google PC search competes with Microsoft's"
The more important question: can it compete with grep?
b) have fun!
Sunny Dubey
who named the puffin bird. I'm sure they'll want a cut of the IPO for the use of the name.
yeah, once they cluster your box with theirs (i.e. copy your files), the searches will be fast.
there's no place like ~
The Google Booty-bar, which searches your address book late and night and lists womens' numbers that are interested in getting together.
If you have followed Microsoft developments around Longhorn you might have noticed that search is one of the top priority features...
Excellent! So I can have proper searching in 2008.
No, Puffin is not the next name of your favorite email client
But how do we know it's not the next name of my favorite web browser?
- Neil Wehneman
My legal education, in nifty podcast format
Just RFID tag everything from now on, and have well-placed readers in your house.
Not only that, the application is code named "Puffin". Hmmm, black and white bird that lives in cold climates and eats fish ... sounds vaguely familiar to me.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws-Plato
Pay for software?
Obviously a new guy.
...10,000 Linux systems connected to your local system and it will all run snappy ;)
E.
Never rub another man's rhubarb - The Joker
I hope not... That could get embarassing!
OTOH, I might finally get word about those wild lesbian orgies in my area that I've heretofore only found out about after the fact.
Who did what now?
I don't know about that... it used to take me several months to find a document on the Internet when I had to download and grep the entire World Wide Web. My bandwidth bills were astronomical. Since I started using Google, I can now find the same files in a few milliseconds. I say they have much better code than my old "wget -r http://*.*|grep foo".
Will Google scan my text files and display relevant text ads? Gasp!
Ah, yes, the ease of using Microsoft "products".
That's scary.
It may not be my favorite e-mail client, but puffin is definitely my favorite past-time.
(Weed you fools)