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Google Experiments With Local Filesystem Search

Posted by timothy on from the better-than-what's-built-in dept.

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."

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  1. But the real question is.. by Sartak · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will Google's search application functions feature Clippy? Or that damned animated XP Dog?

    1. Re:But the real question is.. by swv3752 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I wouldn't underestimate small dogs. My parents have a little poodle (about 5 pounds), that we swear is able to create mass. He gets fed a bowl of dogfood and then will poop seemingly twice the amount. And when he hs had an accident, it is like he generates twice his body mass. Nothing like listening to your mother complain over the phone about how much the dog is able to shit.

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  2. I think most of us already know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...exactly what "local filesystem image search" will return.

    Finally, a way to effectively search through my gigabytes of pr0n!

    1. Re:I think most of us already know... by stephenisu · · Score: 5, Funny

      If this will automatically categorize between hair color, body type, kind of shoot, **deleted content (think of the children)** etc... I could see many people paying more for it than Windows XP Pro.

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    2. Re:I think most of us already know... by Roofus · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes. Google will help you ogle at your pr0n.

      Strangely enough, Google will help you Go Ogle your porn!

    3. Re:I think most of us already know... by NineteenSixtyNine · · Score: 4, Funny

      Especially if her pics come up

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  3. I'm guessing in a year by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:I'm guessing in a year by ZaMoose · · Score: 4, Funny

      Didn't you see the prototype they're already working on?

      (Taken from this Fark thread. Warning/Warnung/Advertencia/Avertissement: "Adult" language contained within link.)

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  4. Re:Windows + F = useless by TRS80NT · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe that's why it's not "Find" anymore. "Find" was evidently too positive a term. Now you only have the ability to "Search".

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  5. Wow, seems to me .... by nbvb · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!" :-)

  6. Antitrust settlement by Karamchand · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

  7. That's nothing. by JasonMaggini · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now, when Google can tell me where I put my keys, then I'll be impressed.

  8. Re:Windows + F = useless by Kozar_The_Malignant · · Score: 4, Funny

    With only 1GB of RAM, my machine can't run both Outlook and Windows Indexing. The constant whirring sound from the hard drives is soothing though.

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  9. The *nix way ... by phoxix · · Score: 4, Funny
    grep -r $dir -I -H -n -e "foobar"
    a) it really works
    b) have fun!

    Sunny Dubey
  10. Re:I can't frickin' wait by Petronius · · Score: 4, Funny

    yeah, once they cluster your box with theirs (i.e. copy your files), the searches will be fast.

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  11. Re:Lotus Magellan for my linux server by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pay for software?

    Obviously a new guy.

  12. ...and all you need is... by evil-osm · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...10,000 Linux systems connected to your local system and it will all run snappy ;)

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  13. Re:I can't frickin' wait by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny
    That is to say, Google's utility won't cut your search time to 20 minutes just because they have better code.

    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".

  14. Re:Microsoft will Lose by HolyCoitus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah, yes, the ease of using Microsoft "products".

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