Thursday, October 14, 2004

Goodbye X1 and Agent Ransack - Hello Google Desktop Search

If you weren't already convinced that Google was developed by extra-terrestrials from beyond the milky way, this might just do the job.  From what I've seen so far, Google Desktop Search is simply amazing.  I'm not saying that I have already uninstalled these applications, but it seems as though their days are numbered.

 

Scott Hanselman has a good explanation of how it works here.

 

I was amazed how quickly it indexed my hard drive.  This is truly a momentous day for the computing world.

 

UPDATE: Okay well it seems like part of it's speed comes from the fact that it's picky about what it indexes.  Of a possible 156,962 files on my C: drive, it has indexed 28,328 (emails, IMs, cached web pages, and “files“).  I still think it's the coolest thing to come around in a while - but it seems as though I will be holding on to X1 and Agent Ransack for the time being. ;-)

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