karavite
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Anyone heard about Google Desktop? http://desktop.google.com/about.html
I heard a radio interview about this and they completely ignored the fact that Apple is working on Spotlight and even that Mac Finder search has been, IMO, superior for years and years to Explorer on Windows.
Any way, when I heard Microsoft was working on something like Spotlight, I expected it to be lousy and about 2 years post Spotlight, but now that Google is doing it, I wonder if this will distract from what Apple has cooking. Of course Google DT is Windows only, so that is good news and it seems the smart thing for MS to do is just give up on their own work, but I can easily imagine them doing all the old tricks (think Netscape and IE, WMP and Quicktime...) to thwart Google with their own inferior copy cat version.
Any way, it would be interesting to compare the two (Spotlight and Google Desktop). Anyone out there with a beta of Tiger and a spare PC? I'll try out Google on my PC soon.
I heard a radio interview about this and they completely ignored the fact that Apple is working on Spotlight and even that Mac Finder search has been, IMO, superior for years and years to Explorer on Windows.
Any way, when I heard Microsoft was working on something like Spotlight, I expected it to be lousy and about 2 years post Spotlight, but now that Google is doing it, I wonder if this will distract from what Apple has cooking. Of course Google DT is Windows only, so that is good news and it seems the smart thing for MS to do is just give up on their own work, but I can easily imagine them doing all the old tricks (think Netscape and IE, WMP and Quicktime...) to thwart Google with their own inferior copy cat version.
Any way, it would be interesting to compare the two (Spotlight and Google Desktop). Anyone out there with a beta of Tiger and a spare PC? I'll try out Google on my PC soon.