{"id":13899,"date":"2004-10-15T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-15T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/15\/google-desktop\/"},"modified":"2004-10-15T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-15T11:30:00","slug":"google-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/15\/google-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desktop.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/icons\/google_white.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Google\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a> has some more big news, introducing a beta version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desktop.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Desktop Search<\/a> yesterday.  As its <a href=\"http:\/\/desktop.google.com\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;about&rdquo; page<\/a> explains, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, chats, and the web pages you&rsquo;ve viewed.&rdquo;  It sounds very promising, and by most of the accounts I&rsquo;ve read so far does a much better job than Micro$oft&rsquo;s built-in search.  Unfortunately, for now it only indexes M$ Internet Explorer&rsquo;s cache and Outlook&rsquo;s mail, so those two portions of its functionality won&rsquo;t be of much use to me at this time. \ud83d\ude41  Still, I&rsquo;m sure they have plans to expand to other browsers, and I can&rsquo;t imagine them restricting themselves to just Outlook mail.  kottke.org has some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/04\/10\/google-desktop\" target=\"_blank\">interesting remarks<\/a> about this product, especially concerning his earlier prediction of a Google Operating System, definitely an interesting idea if it ever happens&hellip;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/10\/14\/1432210&amp;tid=217\" target=\"_blank\">Slashdot<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/36249\" target=\"_blank\">Metafilter<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-109783983283269902?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has some more big news, introducing a beta version of Google Desktop Search yesterday. As its &ldquo;about&rdquo; page explains, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, chats, and the web pages you&rsquo;ve viewed.&rdquo; It sounds very promising, and by most of the accounts I&rsquo;ve read so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/15\/google-desktop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Desktop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}