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Google Desktop 2 Live

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the out-the-door dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Combining desktop search and the Google Sidebar, Google Desktop 2 is now available for download. Dozens of new third-party sidebar panels are now available, Google said. Also launched was Google Desktop for Enterprise (free)."

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  1. On my Mac right now... by MadChicken · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can I insall it vicariously?

    Anyone?

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    1. Re:On my Mac right now... by ForumTroll · · Score: 4, Funny

      More speculation about a GoogleOS....

      Google Fanboy: They made an email app, a desktop search bar and an IM client, HOW COULD THEY NOT BE MAKING AN OS????

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      "A Lisp programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing." - Alan Perlis
    2. Re:On my Mac right now... by zephc · · Score: 3, Funny

      Not til they port emacs, THEN it will be an OS

      *ahem*

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      "I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
    3. Re:On my Mac right now... by emc · · Score: 3, Funny

      Not til they port emacs, THEN it will be an POS

      I fixed that for you.

      You can thank me later.

    4. Re:On my Mac right now... by bcmm · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh God. Their going to use Windows for it, but all the apps will be from Google. Kind of like GNU/Linux: it'll be Google/NT.

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    5. Re:On my Mac right now... by LordEd · · Score: 2, Funny

      Not til they port emacs, THEN it will be an POS

      Emacs has a point of sale plug-in now?

  2. But... by Jesselnz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will it run on my NetBSD toaster?

  3. Uh-oh Google farted! by 0xdeaddead · · Score: 4, Funny
    Keep those press release comming! If it ain't SCO, SCOX, its gotta be Google!

    I needs my fix already!

    Now if google would do something with Natilie Portman.........

  4. Re:Uh, hasn't it been out since August? by aaza · · Score: 3, Funny
    Yeah, but apparantly it came out of "beta" status now.

    Wait, are you saying that something Google released is out of beta?

    (No I didn't read the article, and I find it amusing that almost nothing from Google ever makes it out of beta)

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  5. Stock Price by kmartshopper · · Score: 5, Funny

    You would think that they would have put up a screenshot of the sidebar where their stock was up rather than down $4.17.

  6. I for one... by kmartshopper · · Score: 1, Funny

    I for one welcome our new Desktop overlords...

    (sorry, I had to...)

  7. Re:Google (tm) Air by devilsadvoc8 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It means we don't need to fear the monsterous offspring of a Google/Microsoft copulation.

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  8. Re:Google (tm) Air by lunax · · Score: 2, Funny

    yeah but:
    gAir would smell fresh with the ocasional seafood aroma. MS-Air would have the essence of stale dog crap. The gCar would produce gAir as it's exhaust, and as we all know the MS-Car would crash and get broken into easily. gLatte amd MS-Latte would actually be re-branded Starbucks, but nobody would know that.

  9. Re:Google (tm) Air by ergo98 · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you havent noticed /. is pretty much under seige by Microsofties and astroturfers. Not many dislike google since they have done nothing wrong yet. Except ofcourse your average MS fanboy who hates everything that MS hates.

    Are you kidding? This place is overflowing with Google juice, with endless ranks of Google fanboys falling over themselves to praise whatever it is that Google has done lately to push ads more intrusively into our lives. I find it remarkable that an argument that "all Google wants is to feed you ads" can be stated with a straight face. Isn't this the crowd that demonized Doubleclick to the ends of the Earth? So what makes Google so different from Doubleclick? Oh, right - they use Linux so they must be good.

    So keep on believing that whoever isn't drinking the Google coolaid is secretly a Microsoft astroturfer.