BReflection
msg:1100776 | 2:15 pm on Mar 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
They opened it up for developers to write plug-ins [desktop.google.com]
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GoogleGuy
msg:1100777 | 4:05 pm on Mar 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Short-term, I like the Firefox/Netscape support. But I'll be more interested in what neat things developers do with the API. It's actually two different APIs. If you check out [desktop.google.com...] | The Developer Indexing API consists of interfaces used to construct event objects and send them to GDS, register to receive notifications from the GDS crawler, and for registering your application with GDS. The Developer Search API is much simpler. It consists of sending an HTTP request to Google Desktop Search that contains your search query terms. The HTTP response contains the desktop search results in XML format. |
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People have already written some cool plug-ins (Trillian, etc.).
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christopher w
msg:1100778 | 6:47 pm on Mar 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Kongulo
This plugin is a web spider ("Kongulo" is Icelandic for spider) that crawls websites you specify, e.g. intranet websites, and makes them searchable via GDS. |
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Are we going to start seeing AdSense on Intranet sites? ;)
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rbarker
msg:1100779 | 7:06 pm on Mar 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Still nothing for Eudora.
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sun818
msg:1100780 | 7:41 pm on Mar 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Does it have a rebuild index feature? If not, its still beta.
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walkman
msg:1100781 | 9:34 pm on Mar 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
it's just a label and a technicality IMO. If it works, does what it says it does, and doesn't crash it's fine in my eyes. "Does it have a rebuild index feature? If not, its still beta."
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Namaste
msg:1100782 | 10:40 pm on Mar 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
can Kongulo check for broken links and be used to build a site's link structure?
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dom86
msg:1100783 | 12:51 am on Mar 8, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Hi, I really liked Google Desktop Search, but when I brought McAfee Internet Security Suite 2005 I had to remove it because Google Desktop Search refused to work with McAfee Privacy Service. Does anyone know weather it will work with McAfee Privacy Service now? I would try myself but can’t get to my personal computer as there are Screens and bits of PC everywhere in my room (got some more test systems just trying to get them to work).
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sun818
msg:1100784 | 8:12 am on Mar 8, 2005 (gmt 0) |
I am very happily using MSN as it has a "rebuild index" feature and does an excellent job of indexing/searching e-mails. But I took a peak at the GDS Plug-Ins and this one caught my eye: [desktop.google.com...] I have a lot of PDF and inbound faxes (in PDF) that could all be OCR'ed on the fly and searchable. That's a very good reason for me to try Google Desktop Search again.
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mrMister
msg:1100785 | 8:59 am on Mar 8, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Hail to the API! That is going to be the most useful feature of the product I think. I'm going to take a look at it some point this week, I'm assuming that "metadata of media files" includes the ID2 tags in MP3s which will be very handy.
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bernis
msg:1100786 | 3:12 pm on Mar 8, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Sun818
I have a lot of PDF and inbound faxes (in PDF) that could all be OCR'ed on the fly and searchable. That's a very good reason for me to try Google Desktop Search again. |
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well, if i were you i woudn't .. it doesn't have "rebuild index" feature
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sun818
msg:1100787 | 5:30 pm on Mar 8, 2005 (gmt 0) |
> it doesn't have "rebuild index" feature Thanks, then I will wait. The only way your files and e-mail will be synchronized is if GDS is running at all times. And if at any time GDS is disabled or not running, you have to uninstall and reinstall for the index to be rebuilt. Not exactly an elegant way to rebuild the index.
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ThatAdamGuy
msg:1100788 | 4:10 am on Mar 9, 2005 (gmt 0) |
> it doesn't have "rebuild index" feature Quite a curious and frustrating omission. For all the smarts and coolness over at Google, sometimes they miss things that are -- IMHO -- really basic... both in terms of features and UI. I like GDS, but -- despite its very useful additions -- it's still considerably lagging behind YDS and Copernic, IMHO.
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paulroberts3000
msg:1100789 | 12:03 pm on Mar 12, 2005 (gmt 0) |
> it doesn't have "rebuild index" feature Have you tried deleting it manualy C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Desktop Search
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paulroberts3000
msg:1100790 | 12:03 pm on Mar 12, 2005 (gmt 0) |
> it doesn't have "rebuild index" feature Have you tried deleting it manualy C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Desktop Search
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