[Sigia-l] RE: Google desktop search now available

[Elizabeth Fuller]

Boniface Lau wrote:

 > Also, you cannot restrict searches to a particular drive or folder.
 > Even Windows Explorer can do that.


Why would you need to?  With the WinXP search, I can understand 
restricting searches to single drives or folders, since it takes so long 
to search an entire drive.  But the Google desktop can search everything 
in just a second or so, so speed isn't an issue.

 > A strange thing is that Google Desktop does not search HTML files
 > unless they are in the browser cache (web history). So, if you save a
 > local copy of an HTML page, Google Desktop can't look into that page.
 >
 > Another peculiar thing is that you have to open and close email
 > attachments in order for them to be indexed. Thus, when you have
 > thousands of attachments, you have to open and close thousands of
 > time. No thanks...


Good points, for users who need these.

 > Anyway, Google Desktop is still in early beta.


Yup.  But I do like what I've seen so far.

Liz