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December 26, 2004
Google Desktop
I installed Google Desktop about a month ago and haven't had any problems with it. It's a nifty tool that indexes your text, mail and other office apps as well as AIM messages and lets your search your hard drive, just like you use Google. It's much faster than the search that comes with windows since it indexes things as you go.
That being said, I uninstalled it today. I found that it took much longer to download mail while it was running - to the order of minutes, which is rather annoying. Additionally, I haven't really found that I needed to search for anything. I generally keep a much neater file structure than I keep anything non-virtual, so things are easy to find. Additionally, my laptop only holds 40 GB so it's going to come to the point where archives, which I would need to search, will be stored on CD, not the hard drive.
Posted by Jesse at December 26, 2004 8:18 PM