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- elvisshock, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16ahhhh... don't you mean heats up?
somehow hots up makes it sound extremely erotic. Weird. - Ayatollah, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13it's getting heat in here...
- chad78, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9He's not weird, he's American. Hots up is not at all normal in the US. I would dare say it is just plain wrong in the States. Hot is not a verb. Heat is.
- ptFoe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I for one wouldn't use it.
- livevil, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Stop being a google bendover buddy!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3As a Mac user, I can say that from what I've heard, you're probably not missing much. From what I read, they implemented it rather poorly.
- mshade, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3that's what locate does ;) Your drive is indexed via cron-job, and then the locate command executes extremely quickly.
Granted, it doesn't search inside of files yet. - Adross, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3No it isn't. Dashboard actively sat there waiting for the user to write stuff and displayed relevant data in real time. Beagle is a more spartan search tool
- mushroom, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5You do know that Google desktop search indexes you HDD and stores it on a sever, ask yourself why would they do that? word of advice if you use Google desktop search don't download a crack copy of Google Earth PRO
- bruenig, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3find locate which whereis. What else could you need.
- macewan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2anyone remember Nats dashboard? Wayyy back in the day.
- leszek, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3If you want to install tracker on Ubuntu, the howto on the Ubuntu wiki is here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MetaTracker - mshade, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2The main advantage is that they search through file content as well as file names. You could grep through a directory or subdirectories, but then it's a realtime, resource intensive search. Indexing it makes that operation faster.
I still don't use these tools though :) - spyrochaete, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Google Desktop optionally uploads your index so that you can search your HDD from afar. You can turn it off at install or any time after.
- spyrochaete, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Pre-indexing your HDD content is a lot faster than realtime search.
- oever, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This is a nice and detailed review. I've read it with pleasure and would like to clarify a few points.
Strigi comes with a library (libstreamanalyzer) and a command line application (xmlindexer) that allow any search engine to attain (nearly) the same speed and the possibility to read deeply nested files as Strigi does. The library libstreamanalyzer is used by the core libraries of KDE4 to extract and show metadata in the KDE applications because of its power and speed.
Because of the hard work of the KDE community, many of the file analyzers that were previously exclusive to KDE, have now been moved in to the core of Strigi. This means that nearly the full metadata extraction power of KDE4 is available for standalone Strigi, libstreamanalyzer and xmlindexer.
Strigi is even slightly leaner than Tracker and seriously faster still, especially for getting data out of embedded files. Since the code that does this is available under a LGPL library and is packaged separately by e.g. Ubuntu, there is no need to refrain from speedy indexing. Not even if you are using Beagle ;-) - bruenig, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1locate does pre-index. See updatedb.
- wisam, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1What?!
- Snarfy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Exactly.
Beagle - For those who don't know about find locate which whereis.
Ok so I'm being an ignorant prick. Someone want to explain why Beagle, tracker, etc are better? - Xenogis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Some people like graphical programs.
- Xenogis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I think the universal "hawtz uP" would please everyone. It's unfortunate the article poster didn't realise that.
- pak314, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Beagle is a renamed dashboard. I think they renamed it when Apple took over the dashboard name.
- bruenig, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Grep recursively to search inside of files
- CYR1X, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Great title....
- anjinash, on 10/11/2007, -4/+4Somebody needs to proof read their submissions a little more carefully.
- anuttam, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0what am i missing in google earth pro?
- approaching236, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0google actually just released today google desktop for linux.
- underdog5004, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2wow, Peagle, Yabi AND Peagle! Amazing!!
- mushroom, on 10/11/2007, -5/+4You want spyware?
- melonhedd, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2No one uses Google Desktop for more than two days anyway. There's no point to Linux clones.
- schestowitz, on 10/11/2007, -8/+5[rant ]When will Google finally port its desktop search to Linux? These guys made promises years ago and all they delivered since then are Earth and Picasa. Sure, they have Summer of Code and Linux search, but the crawler/indexer are their bread and butter, which they are not willing to share with GNU/Linux users (even in closed and proprietary form). Just over a week ago, Michael Larabel said they would deliver Linux apps, but people refused to be specific. [/rant]
- anuttam, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1you're weird. Hots up is perfectly normal. Its very common in the UK
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