That’s interesting. Today I installed Google Desktop Search cause I thought it might come handy when searching those thousand mails I stored on my computer as well as the literature for my thesis. I patiently waited until the program was done with indexing my drive. To my dismay it does not know how to search OpenOffice-documents and Trillian-Chatlogs. But maybe there is an plug-in for those.
The real surprise was, when I started to search for the term “indefinable knowledge” which I knew was somewhere in the book “Democratizing Innovation“. GDS didn’t found a single hit. So while fearing that I somehow misquoted the term I started the Acrobat Reader and used the internal search. Well, there it was, right on page 67. So I googled my desktop for democratizing and surely got a result. A closer examination brought the reason for GDS blind spot to the light: Only the first few pages were stored in the cache. I wonder if this is a single fault within the pDF oder the search engine or if the program somehow fails to mention that everything above a certain filesize will simply not be searched.
Also, when googling my emails I finally felt one of the major drawbacks of mail encryption. The mails are stored encrypted. Anyone here who’ll write a thunderburd plug-in that somehow adds decrypt-and-store-capabilities to enigmail?
that’s a ‘feature’ of GDS. Only the first 100k or so of any document is indexed. I think it is documented somewhere, probably in very small print in the depths where you’d never think to look.
And wouldn’t decrypting your e-mails and indexing them in a search tool kinda defeat the point of encrypting them in the first place?
No, because I encrypt my mails so that no one can read them while their on the roads of the inter-net. Like, for instance, the ISPs which are required to store every mail for six month here in germany.
Hmm. Someone should write a “boosting-the-100k” limit…
A few links to get you started:
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As for the 100k barrier, maybe [Link] does help there? (No idea, for I don’t use GDS.)
Thanks, I checked those yesterday…
Notice that the Trillian stuff only works with th pro-version and does only index new logs. *bleh*
Maybe I’ll switch to Miranda finally.
TweakGDS let’s you reindex/add directories of your choice, change the location of the index and influence the way search results are displayed.
Thx anyways!
You don’t use GDS because you don’t search your comp or because of Spotlight?
At work, I’m still using Copernic Desktop Search (do a web search, too lazy to look up the URL for it), which is sufficient for my office needs.
At home, I am indeed using Spotlight to find my stuff again. Some nice plugins there, too (man-pages, nice). Spotlight is nice, although most of the time I’m simply using Quicksilver, which is the best productivity tool I’ve ever seen on any platform, ever.
That thing is unbelievable. It’s to computing/productivity what lightsabers are to Star Wars.
46halbe uses this tool too and is very enthusiastiv about it. But alas, it’s Mac only…
I stumbled on AppRocket maybe it’s worth a try…
To not forget: Copernicus Desktop Search
Edited on Jul 28th 2005, 09:51 by jeck
AppRocket is nice, but sadly nowhere near the versatility Quicksilver offers. QS was one of the reasons to switch. You just don’t get something like this for Windows, which I find amazing.
Anyways, I had tried Quicksilver on Dana’s iBook, and afterwards AppRocket just felt bulky and crippled. That was a sad day.
Ahahahahaha.
You didn’t have to tell me this you know. I was already aware, that the real cool apps are for the OSX.
When there’s a windows-like taskbar alongside Delicious Library and Quicksilver I’ll consider another try.
What I’d really like would be the base-system of OSX and GUI-customizations that let’s me have a taskbar and menu-bars that are fit inside the windows.
What an imperfect world. =)
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