Google Desktop API Released · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 5, 2005 @03:23AM from the free-beer dept.

aarbear writes "Airbear Software has just released an API to Google Desktop, a free tool from Google to search your own computer. In short, the API allows access to Google Desktop through the command line. Results are outputted to a file formatted with either XML, CSV, or custom formatting. The API is implemented through Airbear Software's popular Google Desktop add-on, gdSuite, so the API also adds advanced search options to Google Desktop. Google Desktop Search allows you to instantly find emails (from Outlook and Outlook Express), chats (in AOL and AOL Instant Message [AIM]), and web pages you've viewed in Internet Explorer. In addition, you can find any file by filename and can search inside Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files. However, before gdSuite and this API, users could only search from their web browsers."

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Slashvertisment by zemoo · 2005-01-05 03:59 · Score: 4, Interesting

Isn't this just a plug for the Airbear product? Look at the submitter!

Who would realistically use this API for anything serious? Google will probably break it on the next program update anyways (GMail notifiers, anyone?)