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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?

  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: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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  4. 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".