Comments on: Google Desktop Search http://www.p2pnet.net/story/2786 p2pnet.net offers not-your-lamescream news on movies music digital media P2P peer-to-peer TV television file sharing freedom of speech open source product news Wifi mobiles company Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:57:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/2786#comment-6434 Reader's Write Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:20:37 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/2786#comment-6434 These privacy issues are overblown. The real problem with Google Desktop Search is that it doesn't work. In the sense that it effectively only indexes MS products and can't work out that something is a text file unless it ends in .txt As a programmer I've got a huge number of text files with extensions like .php, .inc and so on. even README. Google ignores all of them. But then this market wouldn't even exist if Microsoft's search in XP worked. It's quite unbelievable the hoops you have to go though to find the buried settings that let it work properly. These privacy issues are overblown. The real problem with Google Desktop Search is that it doesn’t work. In the sense that it effectively only indexes MS products and can’t work out that something is a text file unless it ends in .txt As a programmer I’ve got a huge number of text files with extensions like .php, .inc and so on. even README. Google ignores all of them.

But then this market wouldn’t even exist if Microsoft’s search in XP worked. It’s quite unbelievable the hoops you have to go though to find the buried settings that let it work properly.

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