Google Adds Features and Plugin to Desktop Search

Matthew Bischoff writes "Today Google added new features to its popular desktop software. Google Desktop now supports alternative Netscape based browsers like Firefox, PDFs, images, video, and music files. Google also added a plug-ins feature so that developers can integrate their software into the Google Desktop catalog. Another new addition is a supported way to search from Google's deskbar software. It's probably a matter of time until we see desktop search integrated into all of the Google products including the controversial Google Toolbar 3." Google Desktop is also officially now out of beta.

Comments

Re:Is Microsoft out of the loop?

[stratjakt]

Betcha WinFS wont want to embed context-related ads into my search results.

We call that malware or spyware when other companies do it. Gator Desktop Search maybe.

Re:Why? Whats it for? Whats it do

[stratjakt]

Windows built in search is shitty for finding content inside files, and Outlook is shitty at finding content inside emails.

Define shitty.

Windows built in search found the .c and .h files I mentioned earlier. And, as I said in another response to this thread, I just tried searching my 700MB plus outlook mailbox.pst file, and it took 29 seconds to return a few thousand results.

Google did not index my outlook mailbox at all. Unless this is a new feature.

I should also mention that Outlook did not present me with any context sensitive ads. I guess GDS is great if you complain about the lack of advertisments embedded in your personal data.

So far, thats the only feature I see that it has. Ads. Aside "speed", and really, searching even a completely full 80 gig HDD by walking through every file/dir with a simple VBScript doesn't take more than a couple minutes.