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."

Comments

Cool, but...

[HerculesMO]

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.

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 .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.

The "Do No Evil" philosphy would lend itself very well here.