googleblog.blogspot.com— With this news comes a new feature called "Quick Search Box". Hitting ctrl twice will pop up a search box in the center of your screen -- quite convenient.
Mar 15, 2006View in Crawl 4
Yea. And Im also working on something that hopefully will be usefull. Goes little beyond just searching... But you have full control, and its gonna index in realtime.
The strange thing about this is that they are introducing new functionality on the day it comes OUT of beta. Isn't the point of a beta release to test new functionality before it makes it into a full release?
kind of like star trek eh? :P instead of "computer show me the schematics for the antimatter injectors" its *ctrl ctrl* "schem" "Schematics for the Antimatter Injectors?"
I understand that. I have over 40 GB of music too, stored in folder after subfolder, etc. I still find everything with the normal windows search...all my documents, chats, emails etc. I have all that too...quite a bit actually. Again, I have found everything with the Windows search tool. Either that, or just simply find the song using Winamp/WMP etc by searching with those and then look up the file location through the program. They even search using all the ID3 tags etc too instead of just file name. I fully understand what people use it for, but it is still fairly pointless since Windows comes with a search that already does all of that, and will become more pointless with the next version of windows where it's already integrated and even more advanced. The only benefit this has is that it's Google. :)
I hated Google Desktop Search because of the limited usability of the UI. Why make it a browser app? I very much liked the UI of the Yahoo Desktop Search (made by X1?) which gave you lots of advanced search options and presented a very usable UI to further filter your results by adding filters to columns. The problem with YDS is it's too agressive with indexing. Even when set to the least aggressive setting it still slows down the system.For the MSN Desktop Search product, I liked how it ran in the background almost unnoticed. It is an effective detector of idle time, and quickly goes quiet if you start using your computer. Unfortunately the UI is minimalist web. Not a lot of functionality there.I'd like the functionality of Yahoo Desktop Search, with the indexing priority of MSN Desktop Search.
treeheadMar 15, 2006
;aaaaaaaand still no linux client. no digg.
ace128Mar 15, 2006
Yea. And Im also working on something that hopefully will be usefull. Goes little beyond just searching... But you have full control, and its gonna index in realtime.
ericushMar 16, 2006
The strange thing about this is that they are introducing new functionality on the day it comes OUT of beta. Isn't the point of a beta release to test new functionality before it makes it into a full release?
spacebar14Mar 19, 2006
kind of like star trek eh? :P instead of "computer show me the schematics for the antimatter injectors" its *ctrl ctrl* "schem" "Schematics for the Antimatter Injectors?"
tidejweMar 22, 2006
I understand that. I have over 40 GB of music too, stored in folder after subfolder, etc. I still find everything with the normal windows search...all my documents, chats, emails etc. I have all that too...quite a bit actually. Again, I have found everything with the Windows search tool. Either that, or just simply find the song using Winamp/WMP etc by searching with those and then look up the file location through the program. They even search using all the ID3 tags etc too instead of just file name. I fully understand what people use it for, but it is still fairly pointless since Windows comes with a search that already does all of that, and will become more pointless with the next version of windows where it's already integrated and even more advanced. The only benefit this has is that it's Google. :)
kwreidMar 28, 2006
I hated Google Desktop Search because of the limited usability of the UI. Why make it a browser app? I very much liked the UI of the Yahoo Desktop Search (made by X1?) which gave you lots of advanced search options and presented a very usable UI to further filter your results by adding filters to columns. The problem with YDS is it's too agressive with indexing. Even when set to the least aggressive setting it still slows down the system.For the MSN Desktop Search product, I liked how it ran in the background almost unnoticed. It is an effective detector of idle time, and quickly goes quiet if you start using your computer. Unfortunately the UI is minimalist web. Not a lot of functionality there.I'd like the functionality of Yahoo Desktop Search, with the indexing priority of MSN Desktop Search.