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Google Desktop Now on Linux

Posted by samzenpus on from the yes-it-does-run-linux dept.

mytrip writes "Google was set to launch late on Wednesday a beta version of Google Desktop search for Linux in a sign of encouragement by the search giant for Linux on the desktop. Google Desktop allows people to search the Web while also searching the full text of all the information on their computer, including Gmail and their Web search history. Because the index is stored locally on the computer, users can access Gmail and Web history while offline."

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  1. I think I'll wait by niceone · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think I'll wait until it's out of beta, won't be long, right?

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  2. Re:Privacy by Silver+Sloth · · Score: 1, Funny

    Because the index is stored locally on the computer, What, outside of an inbuilt level of paranoia, leads you to think that Google will know what's on your hard drive?

    Anyway, all my pr0n is stored on M$'s filestore from now on.
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  3. Re:QT, GTK or Mono? by ceeam · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Requires glibc 2.3.2+, gtk+ 2.2.0+" - well, what do you think?

  4. Re:Here's the link. by suv4x4 · · Score: 5, Funny

    And notice the subtle and elegant interface the search is implemented with. That aged, oversized and messy look, a look that says "Linux desktop".

    Disclaimer: yea, I totally mean what I said.

  5. Linux by Junky191 · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Because the index is stored locally on the computer, users can access Gmail and Web history while offline."

    Which is a good thing because despite Linux being 60 some years old now I still can't get this damn wireless card to work despite battling with drivers and make install for days.
    1. Re:Linux by dominious · · Score: 3, Funny

      No, this must be a post from the future. Which means in 2050 there will still be issues for wireless cards on linux:/

  6. Women bleed! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    We women bleed for 5 days! Did you forget?

  7. Re:Obsession with search by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    back in the day, we had to find all of the individual chunks of the file that get spread out wherever the heads landed that there was free space. It wasn't until MS made MS Defrag that it took me less than an hour to read any of my documents.

  8. Re:Privacy by Zaiff+Urgulbunger · · Score: 3, Funny

    A bit of both; part security by design, and part security by obscurity^H^H^H^H^H^H^H a layered defense model! :D

  9. Re:Privacy by MrMarket · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's even more FUD fodder from the google blog:"Developed primarily out of our Beijing office..."

    ps- let me get the next response out of the way: In Communist China your desktop searches you.

  10. What make Linux secure is... by Comboman · · Score: 3, Funny
    Yeah but even then, that's when the beauty of Linux kicks in. If someone discovers, for example, a buffer overflow in the app, they're still facing an unknown kernel version, distro filesystem, and GCC version

    So you're saying Linux is secure because it's hard to develop for?

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  11. I usually do know... by Hymer · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...where I save my pr0n...