Comments on: Google Desktop for Mac OS X Released

By: Pierre Lourens

Pierre Lourens — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:01:11 +0000

I agree with Craig that I prefer spotlight in the fact that it breaks results into categories. However, I am still sticking with Google Desktop because it searches my Gmail account and I recently switched to a completely web-based e-mail workflow.

By: Bill Compton

Bill Compton — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:07:24 +0000

Hi Jim. Photos i received. Thanks

By: craig

craig — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:53:56 +0000

I downloaded it and have been very pleased with the results. I like how it intergrates into my browser. I haven’t had any slow down issues that I noticed. When i do searches in spotlight I get more responses but in many ways this is overkill. If I type in the keywork work I get 3 thousand responses. Who wants to search through that. However I do like how spotlight puts everything into categories like applications and documents.

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By: Kyle Korleski

Kyle Korleski — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:10:51 +0000

I think it’d be more useful if it integrated special results or applications like iChat and Adium results.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:32:10 +0000

I love google desktop on any PC cos it does some of the job of spotlight and QS. But on my mac it chewed a huge amount of system resources and the only thing I want it for is to search my gmail. I installed and uninstalled again last night. not to mention google updater running constantly in the background. Looked suspiciously like malware, or crapware at the very least.

By: Dave M.

Dave M. — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:03:53 +0000

I’m sorry, but I really don’t understand why there is a need to replace Spotlight. I’m a recent switcher myself and I find Spotlight a huge improvement over anything I had ever used on Windows including Google Desktop.

I now use both Spotlight and Quicksilver. I use spotlight pretty much to find a file and show me it’s path without actually opening up a finder window. I know there is probably a way to do it with Quicksilver, but I’m still a little new with QS.

I guess I don’t understand this need to have tools that were on Windows on the Mac since I want to distance myself as far away from the Micorosoft/Windows world as I possibly can.

By: Honza

Honza — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:20:00 +0000

I expect to see a QS plugin for Google Desktop pretty quickly… I don’t think I’ll be installing GD though, at least not until I have time to go through the agreement and privacy policy. It just sounds way too ‘abusable’ (is that a word?) or maybe i’m overly paranoid - and I don’t have little snitch running anymore to keep an eye on things like this.

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The Boar’s Head Tavern » — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:27:15 +0000

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By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:18:28 +0000

Kevin - Google are positioning it as complementary to both Quicksilver and Spotlight, but it seems to be more a Spotlight replacement than anything else. The only thing it has in common with QS is launching apps/files, really.

One rather major flaw: it’s taking an absolute age to index my files - I installed it about three hours ago, and it’s only indexed 2,000 or so files, so it’s not much use as yet!

Another flaw: it installs an input manager for all users, when I’d much prefer to keep stuff like that ~/Library/InputManagers/ (not to mention that input managers are a bit iffy, generally speaking).

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:59:36 +0000

For those of us who are using Quicksilver, how will Google Desktop compete/conflict with it? Is it a complementary app or is it a competing app?
While admittedly not having used Google Desktop yet, I’m questioning what benefits I can receive from it given my use of Quicksilver.
Has anyone else thought of that?
Kevin