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Google Launches Desktop Search Tool
hanky writes "Google brings search to your very desktop with Google Desktop, a mini Google index of your own. Search your filesystem, Outlook or Outlook Express inbox, AIM instant message transcripts, and Internet Explorer cache. There's a full introduction to the Google Desktop over at the O'Reilly Network. It's Windows-only, but still cool enough for this Mac guy to find it intriguing."
M$ to WinFS!
HaHa.
Thanks to me being a slashdot subscriber ive now had this for 6 mins and can offer a 6 minute review.
GOOGLE DESKTOP HAS CHANGED MY LIFE!!!
i achived in the past 5 minutes more than the previous 3 weeks. It found my car keys (they were under the pile of oreily books)!!!
Official GOD FAQ.
Outlook 2000+, Outlook Express 5+, IE5+, and AOL IM... You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany.
Now my wife could easily find out if I've been downloading porn.
Great intention, bad Idea.
Come on Google, PowerPC users are a significant share of your audience.
BLING BLING. Meet the architecture that's changing everything.
It helped me find a girlfriend! Thank you Google Desktop Search!
If my answers frighten you, stop asking scary questions.
Read myself journal when you are not understand. I am German and don't attack English!
Buddy...if that isn't an attack on English, I don't know what is.
"Anyone that has ever gotten an idea based on any of my work and done something better with it-good for you."--J.Carmack
> i installed it, and then it was like: "this will take a few hours to index"
So you're like, whatever?
Well, you could install it to your Gmail Drive Shell Extension That should hold it :)
Urge to post... fading... fading... RISING!... fading... fading... gone.
Only one possible conclusion to be drawn: Google Desktop must contain a trojan distributed file system which provides the storage space for GMail ;-)
It's just a little game of give and take (a gig)
...so worthless if you have Windows ME.
I think you put the word "worthless" in the wrong spot in that statement...
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
Great intention, bad Idea.
Google search and ranking in my pc!??! How will all of the PIGEONS fit in there?!!?
?SYNTAX ERROR IN LINE 42
Thereby making it much like your PC...*
%#060;/cheap shot>>
Reality has a conservative bias: it conserves mass, energy, momentum...
Another one bites the dust
I wonder if it's possible to craft a packet where the ip address is 127.0.0.1 but the MAC address is the address of a different (target) machine. Wouldn't that mean that the packets are delivered to the machine with the MAC address?
/. they're probably probing localhost.
Then if the OS is stupid enough to reply to a 127.0.0.1 query which hits the ethernet card from the network you could get a compromise.
Where's a network engineer when you need one? Probably probing someone's ports somewhere.... actually since this is
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
Brain: "I would tell you Pinky but this 120 char limi
But did you get the memo about putting a cover letter on your TPS Report?
Michalangelo Progr
Your confused and poor, Billy isn't.
My confused and poor Billy isn't what?
-Jesse
Nothing says "unprofessional job" like wrinkles in your duct tape.
...so worthless if you have Windows ME. Sounds like something a Silicon Valley Girl might say...
Hades, PoD: Official Advocate
German: "Will you stop mentioning the war?"
Basil: " You started it."
German: " We did not start it."
Basil: " Yes you did, you invaded Poland..."
OMG!!
SELECT *.JPG FROM C:\pr0n WHERE
(HAIRY_DUDE = 0 AND
LESBIAN = 1 AND
STRAP_ON = 1 AND
ANAL = 1) OR
NAME = 'Lindsay Lohan';
WinFS is teh R0x0R!!!
Rampant Ninja related crimes these days...Whitehouse is not the exception
What's next? The Google operating system? Are we looking at the beginnings of a next-generation Microsoft-like empire?
Yes, and then as you get older all the youngins will hate Google, and love some NEW company and you'll have to explain to them that Google used to be good, and Microsoft Bad, but Microsoft used to be Good and IBM bad but now IBM is good and maybe by then Microsoft will be good. Then there's the whole SCO/Caldera/SCO thing.
At least that's the way I interpreted it.
I, for one, welcome our new web searching OS integrated overlords!
Moderate: -1, meme overused months ago, no longer funny.
Rule of the open mind
People who are resistant to change cannot resist change for the worst.
goonix?
It's a lot less fun when your Google search finds your OWN porn.
I type the word bug into my search box, it behold it list everything in the system32 directory.
Kind of like the American incarnation of democracy. Started here, improved over seas.
Not everything is analogous to cars. Car analogies rarely work.
It indexes C/C++ files! Google wins!
brained damaged
Obviously you know what are you talking about!
...for Google Apartment for when I'm trying to find my keys that I put down somewhere the night before after coming home drunk.
I know people who are worse at english.
So do I...unfortunately, he's the President.
(Yeah, yeah, offtopic.)