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October 15, 2004
Google Desktop Impressions
I have to say I am very impressed with the new toy. Google Desktop is fast, it crawled my 150Gb disk in nearly no time (it crawls when the PC is idle) gives me instant and pretty relevant results (they have to work on discarding common words like 'the' though since they interfere with some of the seraches) is integrated with Google web searches very nicely and is definitely a lot better than that awful system that Microsoft has for searching on your PC.
The downsides? I somehow believed that it would have a Gmail integration since after all Gmail is a Google product - ok, I don't want to talk about Orkut at all at this stage...
As for privacy issues? Google's FAQ tells us that everything is normal and that they do not receive any information unless we tell them they can. I am sure there will be a lot about this within the next few months as Google is an 'easy' and 'obvious' target in privacy issues.
Posted by Basileios at October 15, 2004 05:53 AM
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