Google Releases GDS 2.0 789
FansofTech writes "Google (now $4bn richer) has released v2.0 of Google Desktop. Many new features are introduced including improved Outlook filtering, Gmail indexing, and the feature which is most likely to cause the largest stir...a new Sidebar which displays RSS feeds, a Gmail inbox, news, scratch pad and more. Plug-ins for the new Sidebar are also available including a to-do list, clock, and more. As one blogger pointed out this morning...the release of Google Desktop 2.0 is beginning to take shape as a browser in itself as the need for a Firefox or IE is almost eliminated."
And most important of all (Score:5, Informative)
No XP64 (Score:3, Informative)
Bleh! (Score:3, Informative)
Well it's a nice addition to the system but I don't think I'll replace Firefox with it. It'll take awhile for them to port extensions to the Google Desktop thing and even still it's not cross platform.
Windows Only? (Score:3, Informative)
I hope some of their new-found wealth goes toward developing some of these nifty tools for other platforms (Fedora? BSD? MAC?)...
Thunderbird mail! (Score:5, Informative)
Something for a corporate environment? (Score:5, Informative)
I know Google have some Enterprise level appliances and tools...but we're only 25 people. That doesn't mean we don't generate butt loads of data - just that we can't afford the big kit. Google desktop would be great if it was just a bit more network friendly and configurable, but at the moment it seems targeted strictly for the home user.
I'm hoping that someone will tell me this version will prove me wrong, but I can't see anything to suggest that in the documentation yet...
I wish we could interface with Copernic D.S. (Score:2, Informative)
If only Copernic could create something similar that interfaced with CDS. Oh well.
JP
List of plug-ins (Score:2, Informative)
http://desktop.google.com/plugins/c/all.html [google.com]
None of them stood out as very useful to me, but I can imagine they could be great for some people.
Re:Still useless (Score:5, Informative)
Did you also know that it is possible to change where the "My Documents" virtual folder refers to? I have all of my data on a seperate drive so changed it to point to there.
Right click on the "My Documents" on your desktop and choose properties and you should see the details for changing the location.
Cheers,
Roger
Re:Something for a corporate environment? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Something for a corporate environment? (Score:4, Informative)
http://desktop.google.com/enterprise/download.htm
Re:Help me out here (Score:5, Informative)
http://desktop.google.com/privacypolicy.html [google.com]
To quote: "Your computer's content is not made accessible through Google Desktop to Google without your explicit permission."
-- Michael Chermside
Re:Sidebars (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Plugins (Score:1, Informative)
Re:It still sits in the middle of your TCP stack (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Privacy Issues (Score:4, Informative)
This isn't new, and Yahoo does it also [yahoo.com].
I remember playing with these rewritten links in 2001 for some SEO projects. Back in 1999, many of the links in Google appeared in the status bar as "http://www.google.com/url?url=http%3A//boingboin
This is how the big search engines determine which links are most popular.
The Holy Grail of Direct Marketing is to personalize advertisements efficiently. This is Google's whole business model.
To do this they collect information from the visitors, deposit the information in a huge database, analyze the data and then programatically determine which advertisements will be most effective based on the target audience.
Re:The Wrong Direction (Score:3, Informative)
Microsoft tried multiple times to get the court to throw the case out before the actual trial, and when that didn't work they settled with Caldera for an undisclosed (but allegedly massive) sum of money. I guess one could argue that the case isn't clear because of that... but go read the court docs [digitalresearch.biz].
Re:Is it going to index my Outlook mail on Exchang (Score:2, Informative)
I can't tell from my cursory review of the web page... So I'll ask here: The Google Desktop Search engine claims to index my "Outlook EMail." What does this mean? Does it contain an Exchange client? Is it going to sift through all my eleventy-million e-mails on my company's Exchange server
GDS indexes your Outlook mail by communicating directly with Outlook. It should index anything that's in an Outlook folder, including IMAP, POP, or Exchange mail. It doesn't have any ability to talk directly to your Exchange server, though if you don't keep a local copy of your mail, it's going to hit the server quite a bit as it retrieves each and every message in your Exchange folders and indexes them.
You should DEFINITELY check with your company network admin before you install GDS -- most of them are not big fans, because of the potential security risks.