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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. QT, GTK or Mono? by bogaboga · · Score: 0, Troll

    Anyone know whether this tool will be QT, GTK or Mono based? I slashdotter needs to know, thanx.

  2. Don't Google Me So Close by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 1, Troll

    Although Google has released other projects as open-source software, where it can be freely modified and redistributed by anyone, Google Desktop for Linux is proprietary. The software was developed by Google's Beijing engineering team

    So not only will Google get the index to what's on my local disks, and probably also every keystroke/mouse/click/URL, but it'll get Cc'ed to China's mafia Communist government. Google has a huge evil deal with those evil bastards, and there's no way to know that their Desktop isn't part of it. It wouldn't be the only serious privacy risk Google "mitigates" with only PR, not security.

    I'll just wait for Beagle to copy all Google Desktop's features, but in open source that people examine for spyware.
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    1. Re:Don't Google Me So Close by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Troll

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      Which TrollMods are they? Just Google fanboys? Or Chinese mafia astroturfers? Maybe they're just Chinese Google botnets trollModding anonymously from unsuspecting Slashdotter's accounts, after they've installed Google Desktop.

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  3. Re:Spousal Abuse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    it's really weird that they use almost exclusively Linux computers in their work


    When you go to work as a google dev, you're offered a windows machine or a mac machine. They consider linux a server OS.