Google Desktop Search
<div class="IPBDescription">google set to pwn microsoft</div> Theres another new service from Google avaliable as beta, its called <a href='http://desktop.google.com/' target='_blank'>Google Desktop</a>.
It will index your Documents, emails, AIM conversations and IE history, so that you can instantly search any of it. It's super handy for school papers, when you want to look up information.
It feels like with Google's IPO, they have the new funding to make all kinds of world-altering programs. This is the start of what computers are like in scifi novels, i can now just ask it and it will find information!
It will index your Documents, emails, AIM conversations and IE history, so that you can instantly search any of it. It's super handy for school papers, when you want to look up information.
It feels like with Google's IPO, they have the new funding to make all kinds of world-altering programs. This is the start of what computers are like in scifi novels, i can now just ask it and it will find information!
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while inovative I think I will pass until I am more secure with google and them actually not being evil
We have to trust google as far or farther than we trust microsoft with our personal files. Microsoft has the opportunity, through ambiguous "windows updates" to record everything we do and report any KazAa usage to the RIAA, but that sort of privacy infringement is certainly illegal.
edit: typo
You could make a folder called "My Documents" and put all your documents in it! Woh hoh, you could even further divide it into subfolders with appropriate names! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Seems like a useful idea for the disorganised, but no ty. Excessive use of partions and folders for me anyday.
I trust google infinately more than I trust M$. If I ever do find it necessary to presss F3, I'll resist the urge and use google instead.
Hmm. Wonder if I can pay to make my most popular files come up as sponsered links. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Still it is a very useful service.
i wish i had something WORTH finding on my computer.. do you skeptics all have, like, top secret government documents and black ops records on your HD's?
<b>PLEASE DO</b> cater your advertising to my intrests, advertising people..!! <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
do you act on these spam emails?
Whatever e-mail service you use, your mail will pass through a server. Anyone with sufficient access levels can read your mail. Hotmail or your own ISP e-mail servers aren't very different. If you read Hotmail's User Agreement (or one of the other things you have to agree to), you will see that Hotmail claims ownership to anything in e-mails that pass through their servers. So if you wanted to e-mail those plans for perpetual energy to your friends, don't use Hotmail <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->.
Seriously... "safe" is a very subjective term these days.
If you don't trust the application, don't use it. Simple.
Otherwise use a decent router/firewall combination and don't let the application send out anything, at all.
If you really want to be safe get your 8-bit NES from the attic and entertain yourself with that. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
If you trust Nintendo that is...
Plus, anyone who feels offended by this post or feels the need to reply should seriously think about better things to do with their time.
Blurp.
As a rule of thumb, that's certainly true, but I don't see why I should get defeaistic over it. Yes, I can only maintain so much of my privacy. That should be all the more incentive to hold tight to what remains.
(Yes, I've got too much time on my hands. Happens when you can't go out due to mean university schedules and it's still too early to go to bed.)
You could make a folder called "My Documents" and put all your documents in it! Woh hoh, you could even further divide it into subfolders with appropriate names! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I had been keeping it organized, but after four years of schoolwork documents, that became troublesome, and now they are organized between 'old stuff' and 'relevant stuff', and theres simply too many folders to look through.
same for data files, most of my friends keep 2,000 songs in one folder, and let windows organize them alphabetically. i always kept them sorted by artist, which can be extremely difficult when collecting <i>en masse</i>. When i passed 8,000 i simply couldnt keep up with that organizational scheme, and when i passed 1,500 artists, it was too much work to find any one in particular. I then was using iTunes to organize them by artist and album. Now, at 14,000 songs, even that method is ungainly, slow and painful. it is infinitely easier now to have them kinda-organized in folders, and an instantaneous google search will pull any file relevant to what i am looking for!
You could make a folder called "My Documents" and put all your documents in it! Woh hoh, you could even further divide it into subfolders with appropriate names! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Works for me... <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Why use this again?
What it reminds me of the most is a utility a few people have at work called XFire of XOne or something like that, pretty much its this except not free. They paid $100 liscenses. heh.
I just can't really get excited about this though. Nothing about the privacy, I just don't need it. Well, maybe when HL2 comes out and I need to look within the SDK, it'd be a little faster than Find In Files...
I wonder if it takes regular expressions...
What I'd love to see is GIDE. A development IDE of some sort. Just cause I want a good free one. :P
I put this little app on my pc at work today, and I must say I was pretty impressed. It does indeed search through text files such as C++ and PHP files, not just strictly .txt extension files. This makes it omfgpwn for searching source code. Although it would be really neat if it gave the line number it appeared on, but still that's no biggie.
Something I haven't seen mentioned is that once you find a message in Google Desktop Search (GDS) you can click on it and read the contents of said e-mail while still in your browser window. And from there you can Reply, Forward, or Compose a new e-mail, and it'll even open outlook for you if its closed already, properly quoting the message and everything. Very cool.
Another neat feature is that if you find an MP3 with it, or any other document, and you click the link, it just opens it as if you had double clicked the file in Explorer. No "Open / Save" box from your browser or anything, its just smoothly integrated.
Also, despite not claiming it, they seemed to sneak in at least partial Firefox support. When you go to Google it has the Desktop link there (and I'd really like to know how their webserver handles that too...) and when you search it will mix your filesystem results in w/ the web results, just like it does for IE. It doesn't cache your Firefox cache files though, but this sort of thing would seem like a rather trivial thing to me...
The only thing that really keeps it from being as useful as it could be now is that it doesn't index network drives. If it did, omg it'd pwn and everybody at work would use it in a heartbeat. Other cool things it could do would be to run as a system service in the background (even when you're not logged in) instead of in the tasktray, as well as being able to specify what to open whatever programs with.
Its really neat and really scary at the same time.
come on think of it!
like google cares that i play half life 8 hours a day? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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My office it really isn't a problem with, because there's only 12 of us anyway, but for like bigger companies that could be a very, very big problem. That could let malicious employees get around all kinds of security restrictions...
How could google be so stupid?