Actually it's because of commands like Grep that make me stick with good old windows rather than switching to Linux or something. I can understand that search means search for things. I don't feel I have the time in life to have to learn that Grep = search etc, and then take the time to write a bunch of scripts to rename all the old, archaic commands that date from a time when every byte of memory was priceless. I stick with Microsoft (Oh dear God! Say it isn't so.) because it's what I know, unless there is a GOOD alternative. I use Firefox (now that it can actually display web pages properly) because it ships lighter than IE and is more configurable, and I use Google desktop because it is a highly superior search engine vs the XP search engine. (And it's sidebar provides me 3 things: A searchbox for Google.com, a searchbox for Wikipedia.org, and an RSS feed that only lists/. articles.)
My system is currently a dual boot between XP Pro and Vista Ulitmate while I learn and test things on Vista. While I have Google desktop installed on my XP OS, I recognized that Windows Live search (which is crappy on the web) was an integrated part of Vista and so I don't have Google installed on the Vista.
I would love to change the provider for the built in Win Live search to Google search because one of the "features" of Win Live search is that it won't search the system folders etc (where I have no business being right?), which often is EXACTLY where I need to search so I can fix a program or OS problem. As someone else already stated, disabling the Win Live indexer will just cause the Win Live search to revert to the old XP style search and then I wouldn't have a functional built in search box in every window. Replacing the provider for the built in search from Win Live to Google would give me a better system.
Since I realized I couldn't satisfacoraly replace the built in search with Google search, and since I didn't want two indexers fighting over the idle cycles, I don't have Google Desktop installed on my Vista OS. I'm exactly the type of consumer that Google will loose "business" to because of Vista search, and I'm all for Google forcing Microsoft to allow them to be the provider of the built in search. In fact, I'd love to contact Thomas Barnett and associated policy makers and tell them so. (anyone know where best to direct my comments?)
P.S. I'm actually surpirsed that/. wich is primarily such an Anti-Microsoft group (even the icon for Microsoft is a Borg Bill Gates) is siding with Microsoft and against Google. I don't understand why everyone thinks Google is evil. Yes I get that they're bundling their toolbars with other services, but so does everyone else who has a toolbar to push at you. Apple forces iTunes on anyone who just wants Quicktime (until recently I noticed - Yay!). The list goes on. Everyone (sorry wwmedia's mom) by now knows to take the few extra seconds to go through the install properly and de-select everything you don't want. Google provides so many free, high-quality services to me and in return, for them to make money and continue to provide me services, all I have to put up with is small discrete adds (that are actually ads I might be interested in anyway). I don't see why anyone would think Google is evil.
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Actually it's because of commands like Grep that make me stick with good old windows rather than switching to Linux or something. I can understand that search means search for things. I don't feel I have the time in life to have to learn that Grep = search etc, and then take the time to write a bunch of scripts to rename all the old, archaic commands that date from a time when every byte of memory was priceless. I stick with Microsoft (Oh dear God! Say it isn't so.) because it's what I know, unless there is a GOOD alternative. I use Firefox (now that it can actually display web pages properly) because it ships lighter than IE and is more configurable, and I use Google desktop because it is a highly superior search engine vs the XP search engine. (And it's sidebar provides me 3 things: A searchbox for Google.com, a searchbox for Wikipedia.org, and an RSS feed that only lists /. articles.)
/. wich is primarily such an Anti-Microsoft group (even the icon for Microsoft is a Borg Bill Gates) is siding with Microsoft and against Google. I don't understand why everyone thinks Google is evil. Yes I get that they're bundling their toolbars with other services, but so does everyone else who has a toolbar to push at you. Apple forces iTunes on anyone who just wants Quicktime (until recently I noticed - Yay!). The list goes on. Everyone (sorry wwmedia's mom) by now knows to take the few extra seconds to go through the install properly and de-select everything you don't want. Google provides so many free, high-quality services to me and in return, for them to make money and continue to provide me services, all I have to put up with is small discrete adds (that are actually ads I might be interested in anyway). I don't see why anyone would think Google is evil.
My system is currently a dual boot between XP Pro and Vista Ulitmate while I learn and test things on Vista. While I have Google desktop installed on my XP OS, I recognized that Windows Live search (which is crappy on the web) was an integrated part of Vista and so I don't have Google installed on the Vista.
I would love to change the provider for the built in Win Live search to Google search because one of the "features" of Win Live search is that it won't search the system folders etc (where I have no business being right?), which often is EXACTLY where I need to search so I can fix a program or OS problem. As someone else already stated, disabling the Win Live indexer will just cause the Win Live search to revert to the old XP style search and then I wouldn't have a functional built in search box in every window. Replacing the provider for the built in search from Win Live to Google would give me a better system.
Since I realized I couldn't satisfacoraly replace the built in search with Google search, and since I didn't want two indexers fighting over the idle cycles, I don't have Google Desktop installed on my Vista OS. I'm exactly the type of consumer that Google will loose "business" to because of Vista search, and I'm all for Google forcing Microsoft to allow them to be the provider of the built in search. In fact, I'd love to contact Thomas Barnett and associated policy makers and tell them so. (anyone know where best to direct my comments?)
P.S. I'm actually surpirsed that