14 October 2004

The new Google Desktop Search application is now available for beta use.

I am very impressed so far. I searched for a word I knew would appear in several of my documents and in 0.01 sec it came up with 36 results. We're talking inside .txt, .doc, and .pdf files, too. That search takes the windows 2000 file searcher (yeah, that cute little puppy) at least ten minutes. To be fair, I should point out that the app hasn't yet finished indexing my hard drive (although in about 5 minutes it got through nearly 1000 files). I'm going to reserve judgement untill I've used it for a while, but so far it's looking pretty good.

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