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Funnily, Google [itself] has discountinued its "desktop search engine", which is a great pity, as there have been no decent alternatives and then, what do you d
by mlvljr 10y ago
Funnily, Google [itself] has discountinued its "desktop search engine", which is a great pity, as there have been no decent alternatives and then, what do you do when you need to search, say, a document database, consisting of some .xlsx and .docx files (which are essentially compressed XML files, as I get it)?
- reitanqild 10y agoI too miss GDS and its related offerings. Lately Windows built-in search has impressed me though. I also had great hopes for nepomuk on KDE but I think that is discontinued now.
- mixedCase 10y agoNepomuk has been replaced with Baloo, which is very much alive, way more performant and integrates well.
- reitanqild 10y agoThanks! Always liked KDE so nice to read.
- isxek 10y agoFor finding files within Windows, there's Everything[0], which is pretty fast and small (just one .EXE file). [0]: http://voidtools.com/ http://voidtools.com/
- trizic 10y agotry https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ with https://github.com/koniu/recoll-webui https://github.com/koniu/recoll-webui