I loaded the google search on my PC here at work and it does a very good job.

All in all, I'm content to just wait for Tiger, though. I have a feeling it will be even more integrated with my different programs and I'll probably get a lot more out of it.

If google makes this for Mac that'll be neat for now, but I have a feeling it will be pointless once Tiger comes out.

Just what the Mac community needs... spyware!

Isn't the tigger indea and search function supposed to have calls for applications to use it? All Google'd need to do is hook into it, and provide the external part of the search (i.e. onto google).

If "whatever it is that used to be called Rendezvous but isn't now" can handle it, maybe it's easy to enable local-net-wide search too (with correct permissions, or course)? Eeek. Where's my dev-kit gone - must make money from idea. Damn, no time, no talent

There is nothing even slightly resembling spyware about Google Desktop. Stop spreading misinformation.

you was able to index your folders and look for the content
a long time ago
Apple has API for indexing content starting from Jaguar I think if not earlier
but Apple doesn't have good GUI front end yet
but it will

It will have to do a lot better than the PC version which I looked at to install on my PC but passed...

I want a search system that indexes everything, particularly graphics and pdfs, not just a selection of file types like Google does.

I can't wait for Tiger.

PS Weren't Macs able to index files way back in OS 9?

you would have thought that Apple would have come up with something like this before.

OS9 can index already but it falls under the Find File command which can search by file type, size, name, etc. How can Spotlight be better?

Also, Google's thing may indeed be a sort of spyware and surely the MS things will be. For MS not to make spyware into its search is for MS to declare it wants to remain profitless in that spyware which MS is never is.

"PS Weren't Macs able to index files way back in OS 9?"

Actually, Mac OS 8.5 (1998) supported Apple's powerful V-Twin search/indexing engine via Sherlock.

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There is nothing even slightly resembling spyware about Google Desktop. Stop spreading misinformation.

Well, it doesn't mine data to send to Google, but there are privacy concerns on multi-user computers. If I understand it correctly, the Google Desktop Search tool caches its search data in a world-readable shared directory on the computer. So someone under another user account could access data that is in your account via this cache, if they searched for the right thing. They couldn't open the original document, of course, but they could view the chunk of it that comes up in the search results. Google does state that it's only intended for machines used by one person, but there's nothing to keep people from installing it anyway.

Google desktop search is not spyware, but it does allow files to be indexed from other user accounts. This is really not a problem though, since you could access the same files by browsing through a file manager anyway. Having separate user account in windows does not keep someone from opening your files by default. If you are not using NTFS, you might as well forget about keeping your files safe from anyone who sits down at that computer. If the computer admin does not want other users doing this, he should put a stricter owner policy in use and dont allow other users to install new software at all.

Much faster search than anything ive seen for your desktop. Microsoft's built in search claims to index files, but obviously not as well. And it adds the handy "desktop" search link to google's home page after you install!

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