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GDS and hard drive space

I love Google Desktop Search, especially since it came out of beta. However, it creates a HUGE index. In my case, the index was >2GB. The default location for the index is:
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It quickly filled up the free space on my C: partition.
If you look at the GDS preferences, you’ll find [...]

In Search on 25 March 2005 with Comments Off

Google Desktop Search goes 1.0

Nice. Indexes and searches Firefox history and Thunderbird email. Floating search deskbar. Image and audio file support. API and plug-ins for adding Google Search to any application. Very very nice.

In Search on 7 March 2005 with Comments Off

Technorati likes WordPress

This is interesting. A couple of days ago I created a test blog with the new WordPress 1.5. I’m really starting to like WordPress a lot. And it would appear that Technorati likes my WordPress blog more than my Movable Type blog.
I’ve been posting the same entries to both blogs. Technorati rarely adds my Movable [...]

In Search on 18 February 2005 with Comments Off

Google Mini doesn’t support XMP

Recently, I corresponded with a Google engineer about XMP support in the Google Mini. At work we have a need for robust, finely-tuned search and retrieve capability leveraging Adobe’s XMP in PDF documents. I gave the engineer an example document tagged with custom metadata, explained how we’re currently using a solution which involves Windows Indexing [...]

In Metadata, Search on 11 February 2005 with no comments

Google Desktop Search

Wow. Two searches performed with the new Google Desktop Search Beta and I’m amazed, astounded, flabbergasted. It’s just like having a mini Google on your Windows PC. It’s fast. It’s lean. It’s a fine searching machine.
It indexes your damn Outlook email! This is unbelievable. Get it now.
Update: The blogosphere has exploded [...]

In Search on 14 October 2004 with no comments