Google Desktop for Macs
p2pnet.net news:- Macolytes will be pleased. Now they have the same opportunity as Windows users to let Google loose in their computers.
“Google has released a Mac version of Google Desktop, its desktop search app previously available only to Windows users.” says Macworld. “Google says its search application and OS X 10.4’s Tiger are complements, not competitors.”
What else would it say?
“Since Google Desktop is not drag-and-drop and it doesn’t use Apple’s standard installer, there’s no information about what files are being installed and where,” the story goes on. “Google Desktop does offer an option for uninstalling via the preference pane.”
“If you lined people up and said, ‘Stick your hand up if you want Google to know what pictures you have, and what MP3 files you have,’ I don’t think many would.”
That was Copernic ceo David Burns’s observation when Google Desktop first arrived in the scene.
Also See:
Macworld – First Look: Google Desktop for the Mac, April 4, 2007
first arrived – Google Desktop Search: Spyware?, October 16, 2004
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