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Google Desktop for the Mac Arrives

by , 6:00 AM EDT, April 4th, 2007

Google officially unveiled a Mac version of its Google Desktop application on Wednesday. Google Desktop is an application that searches the contents of your hard drive, Gmail account, and integrates with Web searches as well.

It is a Universal Binary, allowing it to run natively on PowerPC and Intel-based Macs, searches file contents and metadata, recognizes Spotlight plug-ins so it can search for the same information that Tiger's built-in search feature does, maintains a searchable Web history, and takes snapshots of text documents so they can be recovered if accidentally deleted.


Google Desktop for the Mac

Google Desktop for the Mac is free, and is currently available as a public beta. It can be downloaded at the Google Desktop Web site.

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Close Name:gopher Posts: 291 Joined: 28 Mar 2002
Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:16 pm Subject: Any faster than Spotlight?

And is it able to scan the entire hard drive, and not a limited amount? Spotlight's lack of ability to search the entire hard drive makes me ache for the days of old Find File. EasyFind is too slow, and
File Buddy unexpectedly quits too often.


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Close Name:rebbi Posts: 31 Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Wed Apr 04, 2007 4:19 pm Subject: Neato!

I haven't tried it yet on my Mac, but I use it on my PC at work and it's great. Hopefully, this is one benefit of the alliance between Apple and Google.

Kewl!


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Close Name:dhp Posts: 182 Joined: 22 May 2003
Wed Apr 04, 2007 5:54 pm Subject: Re: gopher

Hey gopher, no reason to "ache for the days of Find File." There is still a Find menu item in the Finder that works pretty much the way the classic Mac OS version worked. And you can search the whole computer or even servers.

(Not that it wouldn't be nice if Spotlight could do the same.)


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Close Name:iJack Posts: 313 Joined: 13 Jun 2001
Wed Apr 04, 2007 9:52 pm Subject:

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dhp wrote:
There is still a Find menu item in the Finder that works pretty much the way the classic Mac OS version worked. And you can search the whole computer or even servers.


Not in mine there's not.
OS X 10.4.9


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Close Name:Guest
Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:14 pm Subject: find in file menu

I run 10.4.9 as you do and in the finder menu go to File/Find
or fro the finder use command F


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Close Name:Guest
Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:11 pm Subject: Cr@pware comes to Mac

This thing installs tons of files in bad places. Not to mention how often it phones home.

If Mac users accept this poor level of quality we'll soon discover the joys of applications like "Spybot Search and Destroy".


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Close Name:Guest
Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:14 pm Subject:

and say goodbye to nearly 50MB of RAM just so it can run IDLE. NO THANKS


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Close Name:iJack Posts: 313 Joined: 13 Jun 2001
Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:51 pm Subject: Re: find in file menu

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Anonymous wrote:
I run 10.4.9 as you do and in the finder menu go to File/Find or fro the finder use command F


Well, your directions weren't very clear. First you said, "There is still a Find menu item in the Finder..," then you said, "...in the finder menu go to File/Find.." The first implies it's in the Finder Menu, and the second says both, "finder" and "File". It is in the File Menu when the Finder is active.


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Close Name:Guest
Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:28 pm Subject:

hey-- am i the only one who is paranoid of giving google info on my harddrive. i mean i wouldn't let them come in and inspect my house.

PG


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Close Name:Guest
Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:42 am Subject: the fix for returning "Find" back to Panther defau

just a little page that shows how you can return the Command F or "Find" feature back to how it worked in pre-tiger and the classic MacOS. it will save you a ton of time.

http://snipurl.com/1fdcn


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