do you use google desktop?

[bleuless]

i like some of the features, but not all of them. can you use google desktop w/o indexing? i just want the stock ticker, and email, news weather, etc notification and possibility of adding other gadgets. i don't need it to index for searching, actually i hate that feature. what do you guys do/use?

 

[loup garou]

no

 

[George P Burdell]

No, because I'm not letting Skynet rule my life yet.

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: loup garou
no

^^

i installed it and tried it out one day, but i didn't like the constant indexing and re-indexing of my drive's contents.

 

[amdhunter]

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: loup garou
no

^^

i installed it and tried it out one day, but i didn't like the constant indexing and re-indexing of my drive's contents.

 

[SSP]

Check out samurize for weather, stocks etc...

Never tried google dektop, but beagle on suse works equally well with out any apprent indexing.

 

[iamaelephant]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell
No, because I'm not letting Skynet rule my life yet.

:roll:

 

[Canai]

You can turn the indexing off.

 

[Rumpltzer]

Originally posted by: amdhunter

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: loup garou
no

^^

i installed it and tried it out one day, but i didn't like the constant indexing and re-indexing of my drive's contents.

Yeah, me too... I took it off after about three days.

 

[austin316]

I tend to think Yahoo! Desktop Search and widgets are a much better way to go.

 

[Baked]

Hell no.

 

[Juice Box]

I had it for awhile, maybe a week or two...looked pretty cool. I installed a milkdrop gadget that played a mini-visualization while my music played, which also had a control gadget. Overall it was pretty neat, but I'm the type of person that likes windows full screen 100%, so that 2-3" on the right and side got to be quite annoying. That, and I was paranoid about the drive content searching and stuff, although searching for something after it was indexed was a breeze. Just type the name of a program and it ran it...pretty neat if you like that stuff I guess.

 

[GZeus]

Originally posted by: Baked
Hell no.

:thumbsup:

 

[thirdeye]

I did, but installed Windows Live search to use with the new Outlook 2007. That works pretty well, but the only reason I had Google desktop installed was because Outlooks built in search is horrid. Not that Googles was much better.

 

[bleuless]

what is this indexing problem that i hear, i installed it on 3 othercomputers never had that problem. its a one time index thing, once its done it works fine.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

i swear by it. how else can I find what im looking for amongst 20000 emails.

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: bleuless
what is this indexing problem that i hear, i installed it on 3 othercomputers never had that problem. its a one time index thing, once its done it works fine.

what about files added after the initial indexing?

Google Desktop was IN MA PUTER... EATIN MA CYCLEZ

 

[randomlinh]

i do not like google desktop. yahoo widgets is better for some of those thigns... but is an even more resource hog. granted, on my new machine, it probably wouldn't make a difference.

 

[eplebnista]

do you use google desktop?

no

 

[Mucho]

I deleted it after an hour or so, eating up too much resources.

 

[scttgrd]

Opera + widgets> google.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
Google Desktop was IN MA PUTER... EATIN MA CYCLEZ

:laugh:

 

[Noema]

Originally posted by: Baked
Hell no.

 

[ForumMaster]

nah. i'm organized enough. don't need search.

 

[JBT]

I had a it installed for a couple of days. I uninstalled it though. I don't have much use for that type of thing anyways.