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Anyone remember Google Desktop? Did the job perfectly 20 years ago.
by paxys 2y ago
Anyone remember Google Desktop? Did the job perfectly 20 years ago.
- mktemp-d 2y agoIt always baffles me how long it takes for Windows to search for a file while the GNU's `find` command churns through filenames and paths like it's nothing.
- threePointFive 2y agoWork locks me into Outlook but god I wish I could just grep my inbox
- tristan957 2y agoIf your sysadmins are kind, Outlook can expose IMAP/SMTP.
- WarOnPrivacy 2y agoNirsoft's Search My Files gets me pretty close to Win2000 search.
- eviks 2y agoWindows Everything finds any file globally in the blink of an eye, let's you sort in real time by size/date, live-edit your query, and also perform operations on the result in the list, so much better that any find
- fnordian_slip 2y agoJust so there's no confusion, eviks means "everything" by voidtools, which is really amazing. The difference in search speed is like day and night.
- Joe_Cool 2y agoIt's highly optimized, but it still needs quite a bit of RAM when the index is large. But RAM is cheap nowadays. It's the only thing I really, really miss when I am on Linux. (there is FSearch, but it's not quite as great, yet)
- NelsonMinar 2y agoRIP Google Desktop, 2004-2011
- leoh 2y agoMan, what a beautiful era of Google that was…
- lenkite 2y agoLosing Google Wave, then Google Desktop search and then Google Reader like shot ducks in a row truly signified the death-knell of "Don't Be Evil" days.
- xnx 2y agoAlso lost Google Toolbar in 2011. Though that was far less essential once Chrome came out.
- senordevnyc 2y ago[dead]