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October 17, 2004
Behind Enemy Lines: Google Desktop Search
Not surprisingly, there have been a huge number of posts surrounding Google's latest forray into what Microsoft sees as its home turf - desktop search. I have to say, I've downloaded, and while still a bit clunky (like it only found two files when I searched for "playbook"), I think it is nice to do all of this in one place. That said, I still like the tab layout of A9 a lot for doing this multi-output searching. Anyway, here's a brief recap of all the posts and opinions about this interesting next chapter in the Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon battles:
- Scoble doesn't seem too worried and kinda pumped by the looming fight, which he rightly points out is likely to be good for users. He also points out some other DT search engines from companies both small (Copernic and X1) and big (AOL, Yahoo).
- Ross at Strategize is pretty damn enthused and can't wait for the Outlook PST version.
- Frogbody feels the same way.
- John Battelle of course covers this news and has a clear assessment of the implications for Google's long term strategy: i.e. establishing a beachhead on your harddrive, a continuation of the plain old google experience - a blurring of the lines between online and off, more personal data on you in their database, and maybe a true platform - eventually for 3rd party developers. We will see.
- The Unofficial Google Blog notes that it can be used to search private emails. Hmmm... big brother?
- Dave Pell draws an analogy to a body cavity search, but echoes the note of Google's platform ambitions.
- Mark Williamson notes that the only way to access google search of your harddrive is when you are the web. What's behind this? "if you are always connected to the net do you care where your files are stored?"
I'm already using Gmail to back stuff up. Is it the future harddrive in the sky for the masses? Again, will be interesting to watch and play around with.
Posted by johnza at October 17, 2004 03:02 PM
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