Google has recently released their Desktop search application for the Mac platform. I’ve of course, downloaded it, and it’s indexing my computer as I write this.
The installation and setup of it was very simple, it uses the same Privacy list as the Spotlight search function in Tiger, so you don’t have to add the list to both of their settings. I think it does a good job of searching for word docs, emails, history, but for documents that require images, video, it’s not something I want to use. It does after all, show the results in the Google Search layout (which is strong in text-based results).
I like the features that comes with Google Desktop, maybe Apple and Google can work together to make some parts of it built in functions of Spotlight… (ie. being able to search through emails, chat logs, etc.)
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