Google Desktop Search

[Iain Cheyne]

http://desktop.google.com/

With Google Desktop Search, you can search the full text of your email,
files, viewed web pages, and chats. Specifically, you can:

* Search email from Outlook 2000+ and Outlook Express 5+
* Search files in TXT, HTML, DOC, XLS, and PPT formats (Office 2000+)
* Search chats from AOL 7+ and AOL Instant Messenger 5+
* Search web pages viewed in Internet Explorer 5+

 

[Tritoneur]

http://desktop.google.com/

With Google Desktop Search, you can search the full text of your
email, files, viewed web pages, and chats. Specifically, you can:

* Search email from Outlook 2000+ and Outlook Express 5+
* Search files in TXT, HTML, DOC, XLS, and PPT formats (Office
2000+)
* Search chats from AOL 7+ and AOL Instant Messenger 5+
* Search web pages viewed in Internet Explorer 5+

Requires Windows XP or Windows 2000 SP 3+

Will have to stick with Copernic for now.

 

[Jonathan Aquino]

An excellent writeup by the O'Reilly people:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2004/10/14/google_desktop.html

 

[JohnZing]

http://desktop.google.com/

"google desktop search needs at least 1GB of free disk to install but only
800MB is available on drive c:"

1GB ????

 

[Guest]

From their FAQ:
"4. What are the system requirements for running Google Desktop Search?

Google Desktop Search is currently available for Windows XP and Windows 2000
Service Pack 3 and above. To install, you must have administrator privileges
(home users shouldn't have this problem; people in offices might). It also
requires 500MB of space available on your hard disk. We also recommend a
minimum of 128MB of RAM and a 400MHz Pentium processor. "

 

[Dan Epstein]

Will it search Forte' Agent's mail and newsreader files (*.dat,*.idx)?
I doubt it. How about Copernic?

 

[JW]

Will it search Forte' Agent's mail and newsreader files (*.dat,*.idx)?
I doubt it. How about Copernic?

No it won't. The search type options are:

Outlook email
Outlook Express email
AOL IM
Word
Excel
PowerPoint
Text and other
Web history
Secure pages (HTTPS) in web history

Note that "Text and other" is not just .txt files, but also .html, source code
files like .c & .h, etc.

The above are options that one can set. I'm checking it now and it also does
filenames and - sometime I find a nice bonus - mp3 tags.

jw

 

[Tim Weaver]

From their FAQ:
"4. What are the system requirements for running Google Desktop Search?

Google Desktop Search is currently available for Windows XP and Windows
2000 Service Pack 3 and above. To install, you must have administrator
privileges (home users shouldn't have this problem; people in offices
might). It also requires 500MB of space available on your hard disk. We
also recommend a minimum of 128MB of RAM and a 400MHz Pentium processor.
"

The thing runs in *five* separate processes. Their gmail thingie is a
resource hog, too. I'll pass on both.

 

[Chaos Master]

Quoting Tim Weaver [[email protected]], that posted to alt.comp.freeware on 17
Oct 2004 03:07:34 GMT:

The thing runs in *five* separate processes. Their gmail thingie is a
resource hog, too. I'll pass on both.

It looked interesting! But as big and bloated as it is... it can't be.

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[Jonathan Aquino]

Will it search Forte' Agent's mail and newsreader files (*.dat,*.idx)?
I doubt it. How about Copernic?

You can probably do it with Copernic -- you can specify the file
extensions in the Options.

 

[JW]

The thing runs in *five* separate processes. Their gmail thingie is a
resource hog, too. I'll pass on both.

Just installed Copernic Desktop. 28 megs of memory! I liked the way it did MP3
tag searches better than Google Desktop, but at more than 3 times the memory
utilization, no thanks. Just de-installed it. Also tried Wilbur, but it uses
static indexes that have to be rebuilt or updated when files are modified or
added (WilburUtil seems to be just a scheduler for these updates.) Plus it
doesn't search within MP3 tags. For now, my nod goes to Google Desktop...

jw

 

[James]

With Google Desktop Search, you can search the full text of your email,
files, viewed web pages, and chats. Specifically, you can:
* Search email from Outlook 2000+ and Outlook Express 5+
* Search files in TXT, HTML, DOC, XLS, and PPT formats (Office 2000+)
* Search chats from AOL 7+ and AOL Instant Messenger 5+
* Search web pages viewed in Internet Explorer 5+

If you plan to use Google Desktop Search you might want to familiarise
yourself with the privacy policy that goes along with it:
http://desktop.google.com/privacypolicy.html

Basically as it runs it returns certain non-personal information to Google
about your searches along with a unique number identifying your
installation. Their main privacy policy also applies which states they can
change the policy at any time.

 

[Chad S.]

If you want a small and powerful search tool to find .mp3's and any
other file give ESP (http://www.espsw.com) a try. I use it to launch
all my files. It does a great job!

~cs

 

[Larry Sabo]

[top-posting corrected]

If you want a small and powerful search tool to find .mp3's and any
other file give ESP (http://www.espsw.com) a try. I use it to launch
all my files. It does a great job!

~cs

Seems like a terrific program. Unfortunately, it's not freeware...

"Registration of ESP costs only $10.00 US, and includes free upgrades
for all minor releases (1.xx). "

Larry