[Sigia-l] Google desktop search now available

[Laurie Gray]

Google now has a desktop-based search tool available.
Once you install the thin client, it indexes your hard
drive, allowing you to search for documents and emails
on your pc via a web-based interface. In theory it
sounds amazingly useful. We'll see how it is in
practice.
 
I have downloaded the client and it is currently
indexing my computer. I have documents everywhere so I
think it will be interesting to see what it finds and
how long it takes.
 
Laurie

 
 
>From a ZDNET article:
"The Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which will
report earnings for the first time as a public company
next week, has created Google Desktop Search, a
thin-client application that lets people retrieve
e-mail, Microsoft Office documents, AOL chat logs and
a history of Web pages previously viewed, all via a
Web browser. 
"It's like photographic memory for your computer--if
you've seen it before, you should be able to find it,"
said Marissa Mayer, director of consumer Web products
at Google.
 
Rumored for months, Google's unveiling of desktop
search trumps rivals Yahoo, Microsoft and America
Online in the race to integrate Web navigation with PC
search and stay on the cutting edge of search
technology in people's minds. Desktop search has been
earmarked a priority by all the major search engines,
but among investors and analysts Microsoft has posed
the biggest threat to Google's reign because of its
dominance with the Windows operating system."
 
Full article is at
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5408765.html
Desktop tool is at http://desktop.google.com/