Comments on: Google Desktop 5 Released: Search Improved

By: Peter_A

Peter_A — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:28:50 +0000

Can the latest Google desktop search Outlook folders other than the INBOX? How?

- Peter

By: foxy

foxy — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:34:45 +0000

nice i need this badly

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:49:53 +0000

Copernic has been around for a long time – haven’t they? Or was that a different product line? Anyways, I don’t know how I ever lived without Google Desktop.

By: Billy_Mcskintos

Billy_Mcskintos — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:01:38 +0000

Does anybody else use Windows Desktop Search. I personally cannot live without it. Am I missing something in the competitors?

By: datter

datter — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:49:03 +0000

Anyone know of a Google gadget that lets you play a video in a small window on the sidebar. That would be rather nice.

By: nicolas

nicolas — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:41:53 +0000

I suggest you try Exalead Desktop Search http://www.exal.../exaleadDesktop
It provides you with very useful refinements !

By: bubbatex

bubbatex — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:33:49 +0000

I loved it and even liked X1, however both brought my laptop to its knees. I finally realized that Goog Desktop was a problem and have been running free and clear for a while now. Might be OK for a more powerful desktop, or even a dual-processor laptop….

By: Grogan

Grogan — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:26:57 +0000

Take a look at the new version in Sidebar mode, and then compare to Vista’s Sidebar. This is a complete COPY of the Vista Sidebar!

By: rack pallet

rack pallet — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:58:14 +0000

google desktop works and makes sense. Of course its still around.

- Google does know all. The fact that they have warned “that the government will be a bigger security issue, than exploits” …

– If the Government evers gets my info from google Im screwed

Later, RB

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:38:56 +0000

@Werner, you can:

http://lifehack...ktop-199630.php

By: Robert Accettura

Robert Accettura — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:46:24 +0000

Great to see some new features.

I still have a request list:

- Better handling of indexing on non-C drives (ability to opt out for certain removable volumes, and handle others).
- *nix version that could be run on a file server, and workstations can see and read it’s index (so you can view your network documents via your workstation).
- Mac version (kinda goes with the above).

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:33:23 +0000

Has anyone compared X1 vs. Copernic?

By: Werner Egipsy Souza

Werner Egipsy Souza — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:23:44 +0000

I just wish they would let me store the index somewhere other than C drive.

Werner

By: Craig Cockburn

Craig Cockburn — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:23:17 +0000

If Google Desktop and others only index in the background, why do they all seem to make my computer run so slow? I would happily trade in a slightly slower search for computer that runs faster when I’m not searching….

By: Velioncho

Velioncho — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:37:54 +0000

yahoo desktop search aka x1 is the best.

I use it every day and I love it.

Google, the index king, is expected to be king in desktop search as well, but they are way behind compared to others.

By: Laurent

Laurent — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:47:03 +0000

unfortunately, the new preview simply shows you an HTML-based rendering of your PDF, Word, PPT documents, which is confusing because it strips most of the formatting. So in the end, previewing is useless to me.
What others think?

By: Wes

Wes — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:49:04 +0000

I never fancied the previous Google desktop search, was user unfriendly and I found that Copernic was far better. I will have to take a look at this one and see how much it has improved.

By: carl0ski

carl0ski — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:43:08 +0000

Don

Windows is still around
So whats your point?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:42:41 +0000

I just use X1’s search (free, now — what Yahoo! based theirs on), and I can’t get by without it (www.x1.com). PM’ing multiple projects for a huge company, no matter how organized I am, a desktop search saves me TONS of time. I can quickly retrieve any e-mail, document — anything — so long as I can just remember a small phrase. I can’t live with out it anymore.

I originally moved away from Google to Yahoo (and then just to the generic X1 client) because Google kept ‘losing’ my Outlook emails when I would move them to another folder — in other words, it would index them, I would move them to another folder in Outlook, and then it would never update its index. X1 has never suffered from this downfall, so I can always quickly pull up an old email, ‘Reply to All’ right from the X1 interface, and voila!

The Outlook search bar, included in X1, is a nice feature as well! (Outlook’s internal search is soooo TERRIBLY slow!)

By: James

James — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:21:43 +0000

I love google desktop, but I always exit out of it when my computer starts up… google knows all… :O

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:08:29 +0000

I don’t intend to sound mean, but Google Desktop is still around? I really hate software that just takes up memory like that.

By: ...some Drifter

...some Drifter — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:05:49 +0000

i like the concept of google desktop.

but in the real world, i don’t see myself using it – nor mainstream america.

“opening” up your computer to the internet will make alot of people feel somewhat violated, insecure and vulnerable – it can be a tough sell

i rarely have to search my computer.
i’m organized enough to know where i keep files, thank you very much

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:04:26 +0000

Great, than we can go back to that beer again:-)

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:56:10 +0000

unforgotten.

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:50:01 +0000

Let’s not Forget Copernic Desktop Search.