Google Desktop Search

[Steve CDN]

Google announce that Google Desktop Search is being moved out of beta.

How will this utility help the average home user?  Has anyone had experience with the beta and what would be your comments?

 

[Ned]

I wanted to try it but it's incompatible with several programs that I use, specifically my Internet Download Manager.  Check the google pages for the incompatibilities.  I then tried Copernic, but the lastest beta used too many resources (750MB RAM, not just virtual memory) that I removed it.  I'm now running Yahoo Desktop Search and it seems much easier on the system than Copernic (only 7MB RAM and 12MB virtual).

A desktop search engine is nice, but be sure to put the index on a parition with lots of room.  The indexes can get quite large.

 

[cadee2c]

I found this buried way in the back of the lists. Its funny how something so new at that time has become such a popular word that it was made a verb and put into the dictionary. Who back then knew Google would have become such a big thing?

Caryl