Google Desktop for Mac

[aussie_geek]

Probably best to ask that question here...

ouch - just had a little read thru that article. g desktop indexes your computer for days on end and stuffs around with your mac's permissions.

some users are having a hard time removing it also.... my macs will steer clear of google's latest creation.

aussie_geek

 

[localoid]

ouch - just had a little read thru that article. g desktop indexes your computer for days on end and stuffs around with your mac's permissions.

some users are having a hard time removing it also.... my macs will steer clear of google's latest creation.

aussie_geek

Google Desktop indexed 40-50,000 files here in a few hours... no file permission problems experienced or detected. Indexing is on-going, unless you turn it off (which you can easily do). It uses your Spotlight preferences for searches, so you can filter what is or isn't searched.

Since I can now use exact phrase searches within files, plus search my browser's history and my gmail account I'm not really interested in seeing if I can uninstall it.

 

[weg]

Umm wow. Its faster then Spotlight.

Yup.. on my 1.5GHz PPC Powerbook, it's actually several seconds faster than Spotlight... I'm totally blown away - not using Spotlight anymore.