Thursday, August 25, 2005
Google Desktop 2.0 (Beta) review by PC Magazine:
"...As a desktop search utility, Google Desktop generally stands almost level with Yahoo! Desktop. Both automatically index new and changed files and e-mail, and search Outlook contacts, tasks and notes. However, Yahoo! Desktop Search still benefits from its X1 roots, with support for over 300 file formats. Yet Google's no slouch. It can, for example, preview and index PDFs, which the other key competitor in this space, MSN Desktop Search, cannot do without a plug-in. Google Desktop also has wider support for search-while-you-type than MSN Search. It uses it in all the main locations—the Sidebar, the Deskbar, and the Floating Deskbar—while MSN can only search-while-you-type in its own Deskbar.
For purists, Yahoo! still offers a better desktop search tool, but Google Desktop 2.0's sidebar offers a compelling new way to navigate both your own computer and the Internet. It's a step closer to a tantalizing future ideal where the desktop interface would disappear entirely, and anything you wanted would be available immediately with a few keystrokes or mouse clicks. Google Desktop doesn't take you all the way there, but it makes finding things on your computer both faster and easier..."
"...As a desktop search utility, Google Desktop generally stands almost level with Yahoo! Desktop. Both automatically index new and changed files and e-mail, and search Outlook contacts, tasks and notes. However, Yahoo! Desktop Search still benefits from its X1 roots, with support for over 300 file formats. Yet Google's no slouch. It can, for example, preview and index PDFs, which the other key competitor in this space, MSN Desktop Search, cannot do without a plug-in. Google Desktop also has wider support for search-while-you-type than MSN Search. It uses it in all the main locations—the Sidebar, the Deskbar, and the Floating Deskbar—while MSN can only search-while-you-type in its own Deskbar.
For purists, Yahoo! still offers a better desktop search tool, but Google Desktop 2.0's sidebar offers a compelling new way to navigate both your own computer and the Internet. It's a step closer to a tantalizing future ideal where the desktop interface would disappear entirely, and anything you wanted would be available immediately with a few keystrokes or mouse clicks. Google Desktop doesn't take you all the way there, but it makes finding things on your computer both faster and easier..."
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