Desktop Search? I don’t get it.
Microsoft recently launched their desktop search.
Something’s lost on me here. Let me see if I understand:
The owner of the desktop has released a new search?
And that’s news?
Um, so how is this different from the search built into Windows? Is Microsoft telling us they’ve been shirking us for years and now we need this fangdangle? Because it shows results in a browser?
It’s easy to look back at some of the crazy ideas of the bubble in hindsight and wonder how people ever drank that kool-aid. The truth is, a lot of the ideas where suspect at the time, but since there where so many and frequently, many doing the same stupid thing, it was hard to be the one who claimed the emperor wore no clothes — to be the one who “didn’t get it.”
Of course, since Google did it, everyone has to do it. But was there really even needs Google’s? Where people saving files to their drives in such vast quantaties and in such haphazard manner that nobody could find anything? Did a Google Product Manager have an image of users treating their icons like the pull of a slot machine, shooting “Oppa!” when finally opening the right file?
I’m clearly not getting desktop search.
December 20th, 2004 at 10:20 pm
I have the google desktop search installed. I get the most value out of the ability to search my mail. I keep a pretty huge archive of mails around, since I like to keep my paper trails intact.
Yes, I could search through outlook, but Google is much faster, and it feels the same as searching the web. I know I can plug in some key terms (maybe the topic of the thread, along with a recipient or sender), and I know I’ll usually get good results.