Spotlight VS. Google's Desktop Search

[eleveneastgate]

Saw this on MySpace.com, interesting...

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[iindigo]

Spotlight beats Google Desktop hands down for 100% system integration alone, let alone search capabilities. Spotlight can handle several hundred different formats out of the box, wheras with Google Desktop you'll need to find the appropriate plugin for many formats, if it even exists. It also has to constantly reindex to keep itself up to date - something Spotlight needn't do with its sytem integration, since Spotlight automatically gets notified of any and all changes.

 

[eleveneastgate]

Thanks!

^^ Thanks for the info iindigo... I was jus' curious about it because I hav'nt got Tiger yet.

 

[DXoverDY]

ya, the data in google desktop search can be old, so when you search a file that is deleted or altered may show up but not contain the data or be deleted. that alone is the big thing for me. it's never totally up to date.

 

[James Philp]

Does google desktop even work on the Mac? On the link it says:

Requires Windows XP or Windows 2000 SP 3+

So in that case, umm..... I think Spotlight beats it hands down!
Moot point.