Thursday, October 14, 2004
Google Desktop Rocks!!
Preempting Microsoft and Yahoo, Google have unleashed the beta version of Desktop Search. For the unitiated, what desktop search offers is the ability to search both your desktop and the web simultaneously. Desktop search gives you the option of searching all e-mail messages, MS office documents and the archive of all web pages visited. After a quick download, the tool indexes all the files on the desktop and then searches that index when you query it.
I've been using it for a few hours now and boy, it rocks. The average time taken to complete a search has ranged between 0.02 seconds to 0.36 seconds. Compare that with the ridiculous amount of time XP search takes and whats more, Google also manages to search through your e-mail in that same time. You can read a more detailed review of the tool at SearchEngineWatch . You can also have a look at Google's Privacy FAQ.
Even the limited time I have spent using the tool has convinced me that this will become as indispensable a tool for me as Google's toolbar is. Highly, highly recommended productivity tool.
I've been using it for a few hours now and boy, it rocks. The average time taken to complete a search has ranged between 0.02 seconds to 0.36 seconds. Compare that with the ridiculous amount of time XP search takes and whats more, Google also manages to search through your e-mail in that same time. You can read a more detailed review of the tool at SearchEngineWatch . You can also have a look at Google's Privacy FAQ.
Even the limited time I have spent using the tool has convinced me that this will become as indispensable a tool for me as Google's toolbar is. Highly, highly recommended productivity tool.
