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Google Releases GDS 2.0
FansofTech writes "Google (now $4bn richer) has released v2.0 of Google Desktop. Many new features are introduced including improved Outlook filtering, Gmail indexing, and the feature which is most likely to cause the largest stir...a new Sidebar which displays RSS feeds, a Gmail inbox, news, scratch pad and more. Plug-ins for the new Sidebar are also available including a to-do list, clock, and more. As one blogger pointed out this morning...the release of Google Desktop 2.0 is beginning to take shape as a browser in itself as the need for a Firefox or IE is almost eliminated."
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In a time when the Open Source community and movement as a whole are gathering steam, I find it counterproductive for Google to release another competing browser. Firefox being open source, and being pretty darned good, is probably the best opponent to the dominance of IE. Google would be better supporting an ongoing OSS movement like the one Firefox has created in a short span of time. The brainpower of Google and their ability to create applications that are simple yet advanced would lend itself greatly to Firefox.
.NET, they challenge Windows as a 'necessity', and they make room for web applications that work wonderfully using the newly formed AJAX along with other existing technologies, and ones yet to be created.
I'm not hoping to see Firefox replaced by a , nor am I hoping to see IE replaced by it. By leveraging Firefox as a whole, they challenge
The "Do No Evil" philosphy would lend itself very well here.
The price is always right if someone else is paying.
" Google Desktop sends Google non-personal data about how you're using the program, along with reports if it ever crashes. It also sends information about the websites you visit so that Sidebar can show personalized info, such as personalized news. Analyzing this data from many users helps our engineers better understand how people actually use Google Desktop and therefore how we can improve it." Makes me a little nervous... Not nervous enough to uninstall it however.
But not "light years" ahead of the MS desktop search, which, unlike google, does not spy on you and send your local search results back to google for processing!
Google's takeover of the desktop is the biggest opt-in privacy invasion in history. The way they have managed to do so much evil and still remain "respected" is uncanny.
I think anybody who frequents Slashdot knows what sarcasm is. But Mac users whining about lack of support for their platform is too common to rate as real sarcasm.