Comments on: Google's desktop bet

Advertising and technology conundrums loom for the company if it tries to transplant its Web search business to consumer hard drives.

Portal OS

It might be that Google is planting the seeds to replace desktop applications and data with a locally running portal server. This would in effect standardize the desktop based on how the internet works. Once a single pervasive platform is in place where Microsoft is not king, Google's applications and services would be easier to deploy and consume. In this model, the browser can be used for searching and navigating local content offline just as easily as it is used for searching and navigating internet content online.

[anthonycea]

Life on Mars, Google OS, one in the same.

Google Zealots will not like the fact that the company that they love is nothing more than the next Gator, wonder what Google will rename themselves after destroying the comapny. This spyware information model that is the foundation of every Google program is a joke that will be stamped out by lawmakers. Anyone who bids on the stock in the IPO will be Netscaped. Look at some of the Zealot statements at http://www.searchwars.squarespace.com/display/ShowPage?moduleId=20029 You will also see them shot down there also. Google OS Google Spyware one in the same.

[Earl Benser]

There is limited hope....

Google's programmers seem to be locked into the Microsoft
universe - one of a limted event horizon surrounding a black
hole of information. Makes me glad that my computers are
Macintosh's, not PC's

Go Google

Let's all see what google can do.

Check out www.diskmeta.com

They just announced their local search for Windows machines last week. $50 for a desktop PC version, $100 for a LAN. I am testing their professional version right now.

100 GB needed to test a desktop search engine

We, the DISKMETA developers, will be very grateful if someone can provide us RELIABLE TEST RESULTS on indexing and searching data volumes about 100 GIGABYTES, of different text file formats, at various PC configurations, under all Windows platforms (98 or higher).

This will help us a lot in enhancing the DISKMETA performance, if you kindly agree to take time and report your opinions/troubles.

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Mail to: [e-mail]

Thank you all in advance and please excuse if this request is offtopic here.


DISKMETA desktop search is intended for extra large data volumes, UP TO 100 GIGABYTES. It can create up to 100 indexes, index up to ONE MILLION various files. The search time is never more than ONE SECOND.