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I'm surprised Google Desktop is shutting down. A lot of my coworkers use this and rely on this quite heavily. I used it a lot myself. There certainly is a nee

by hrabago 15y ago

I'm surprised Google Desktop is shutting down. A lot of my coworkers use this and rely on this quite heavily. I used it a lot myself. There certainly is a need to index and search the vast amount of data that's now in our ever growing HDs. Is the search feature in the latest Windows versions capable of tackling this?

superuser2 15y ago
Yes. Having used Windows 7 at work and Leopard at home, Windows 7's start menu search functionality is just as good as Spotlight. It has, like Spotlight, let me treat my hard drive like a shapeless pile and still find everything I need quickly. It's also fast enough to use as an application launcher.
- sliverstorm 15y ago
  It's actually been that good for years. Google Desktop's value is mostly rooted in Windows XP.
oskee80 15y ago
I started using Everything (http://www.voidtools.com/ http://www.voidtools.com/) to help mitigate XP's slow searching and still use it today, even with Win7's much improved search functionality. Everything Search only indexes file names, so you can't search via date modified or anything like that, but it is super-fast and supports regular expressions. Need to find a word doc that begins with 'ca'? Just type '^ca.*\.docx?', instant results.
- baddox 15y ago
  Everything is a must-have Windows utility. It's blazingly fast (because it's searching file names only) and up-to-date (presumably because it's watching the NTFS change journal). You can also install the client on multiple networked PCs, run the "ETP Server," and search a remote computer's files, and double-clicking a result will open the SMB path to that file. I use this all the time to quickly find videos on my file server.
guelo 15y ago
Checkout http://locate32.net http://locate32.net it's lightweight, simple and fast. The setup takes a little know-how but once you have it running from startup and scheduling database updates it is indispensable.
kraemate 15y ago
Desktop is the only indexing+search tool that works in Linux. Ive tried all of them, but the search+ranking algorithms in Google Desktop _just work_. Seriously, killing G-Desktop just sent computing back to 1990.

by hrabago 15y ago

superuser2 15y ago

Yes. Having used Windows 7 at work and Leopard at home, Windows 7's start menu search functionality is just as good as Spotlight. It has, like Spotlight, let me treat my hard drive like a shapeless pile and still find everything I need quickly. It's also fast enough to use as an application launcher.

sliverstorm 15y ago
It's actually been that good for years. Google Desktop's value is mostly rooted in Windows XP.

oskee80 15y ago

I started using Everything (http://www.voidtools.com/ http://www.voidtools.com/) to help mitigate XP's slow searching and still use it today, even with Win7's much improved search functionality. Everything Search only indexes file names, so you can't search via date modified or anything like that, but it is super-fast and supports regular expressions. Need to find a word doc that begins with 'ca'? Just type '^ca.*\.docx?', instant results.

baddox 15y ago
Everything is a must-have Windows utility. It's blazingly fast (because it's searching file names only) and up-to-date (presumably because it's watching the NTFS change journal). You can also install the client on multiple networked PCs, run the "ETP Server," and search a remote computer's files, and double-clicking a result will open the SMB path to that file. I use this all the time to quickly find videos on my file server.

guelo 15y ago

Checkout http://locate32.net http://locate32.net it's lightweight, simple and fast. The setup takes a little know-how but once you have it running from startup and scheduling database updates it is indispensable.

kraemate 15y ago

Desktop is the only indexing+search tool that works in Linux. Ive tried all of them, but the search+ranking algorithms in Google Desktop _just work_. Seriously, killing G-Desktop just sent computing back to 1990.