1. >I’m disappointed that Gmail is not supported in this first release
It searchs images.

> I’m even more disappointed that there is no image search, especially for Picasa users
I think it's a different story, just an integration on the interface, but it would be convenient to combine them together.

By the way, you can discard your outlook search addon tool :-).

Posted at 4:57AM on Dec 19th 2005 by levein

2. For being in Beta I really like it. It's missing some functionality but it's very well thought out.

Posted at 4:57AM on Dec 19th 2005 by CarLBanks

3. I've been using Copernic's desktop search tool, and it seems pretty okay to me. Anyone done a comparison yet?

Posted at 4:57AM on Dec 19th 2005 by ubaid

4. levein: Not just yet. Lookout indexes and searches everything in Outlook (e-mail, contacts, tasks, calendar, notes, and Journal entries). Google Desktop currently only works on e-mail.

Carl: I agree. For a first beta release, it's mighty impressive. If Gmail is any barometer, we can expect a steady flow of enhancements and improvements.

ubaid: I've not yet seen a direct comparison (sounds like a good blog article though). CDS is a nice utility and it currently does more than Google Desktop (especially its images and music indexing). But, as I said just above, this is a first beta release and I fully expect that Google will continue to add and refine this tool.

Posted at 4:57AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Marc Orchant

5. hey, i have being trying google desktop search for some dyas and i found it really impressive! i like it very much!
but i still have an unclear point in my mind: google creates a "copy", in cache; for all the pages or documents i look at..so i wanted to know if it's going to occupy a lot of space in my hard disk in few weeks only for the copies..
i tried to delete some files from my hard disk and i still can see them using the cache that google had created before..
thanks to anyone who will answer to me ;)
matteo

Posted at 4:57AM on Dec 19th 2005 by matteo

6. Has anyone discovered a workaround to this problem? The installer requires that you have administrator privileges, which in my case (and many others I think) means logging in as administrator. But then when I log in as myself again Desktop Google won't run. I get an error that the account that installed the program needs to be the same as the one running it. The FAQ has some oblique references to this under the topic of running the program under "multiple accounts," which they say is not supported. I don't want to run it under
multiple accounts, just one, after I get it installed. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Posted at 4:57AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Marc Levy

7. It doesn't appear to search other text files such as source code (e.g. *.cs). Does anybody know if there's way to customize what text files it will index?

Gerry

Posted at 4:57AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Gerry

8. You could take that account that you want Google Desktop Search on, turn it into an Admin account. Run Google Desktop Search and let it finish indexing to be on the safe side, the turn the account back to Limites.

Posted at 4:57AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Math Wizxp

9. I liked what this program could do BUT it prevented me from loading large Word files - 10 megs or greater. No problem before installing Google Desktop Search - and none after I removed it. I have a gig of RAM so memory shortage should not have been a major problem. Any one else with the same/similar experience?

Also, it would not index files with RTF extension even if they were Word files.

Posted at 4:57AM on Dec 19th 2005 by David Wollrich

10. >I’m disappointed that Gmail is not supported in this first release
It searchs images.

> I’m even more disappointed that there is no image search, especially for Picasa users
I think it's a different story, just an integration on the interface, but it would be convenient to combine them together.

By the way, you can discard your outlook search addon tool :-).

Posted at 4:57AM on Dec 19th 2005 by levein

11. For being in Beta I really like it. It's missing some functionality but it's very well thought out.

Posted at 4:57AM on Dec 19th 2005 by CarLBanks

12. I've been using Copernic's desktop search tool, and it seems pretty okay to me. Anyone done a comparison yet?

Posted at 4:57AM on Dec 19th 2005 by ubaid

13. levein: Not just yet. Lookout indexes and searches everything in Outlook (e-mail, contacts, tasks, calendar, notes, and Journal entries). Google Desktop currently only works on e-mail.

Carl: I agree. For a first beta release, it's mighty impressive. If Gmail is any barometer, we can expect a steady flow of enhancements and improvements.

ubaid: I've not yet seen a direct comparison (sounds like a good blog article though). CDS is a nice utility and it currently does more than Google Desktop (especially its images and music indexing). But, as I said just above, this is a first beta release and I fully expect that Google will continue to add and refine this tool.

Posted at 4:57AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Marc Orchant

14. hey, i have being trying google desktop search for some dyas and i found it really impressive! i like it very much!
but i still have an unclear point in my mind: google creates a "copy", in cache; for all the pages or documents i look at..so i wanted to know if it's going to occupy a lot of space in my hard disk in few weeks only for the copies..
i tried to delete some files from my hard disk and i still can see them using the cache that google had created before..
thanks to anyone who will answer to me ;)
matteo

Posted at 4:57AM on Dec 19th 2005 by matteo

15. Has anyone discovered a workaround to this problem? The installer requires that you have administrator privileges, which in my case (and many others I think) means logging in as administrator. But then when I log in as myself again Desktop Google won't run. I get an error that the account that installed the program needs to be the same as the one running it. The FAQ has some oblique references to this under the topic of running the program under "multiple accounts," which they say is not supported. I don't want to run it under
multiple accounts, just one, after I get it installed. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Posted at 4:57AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Marc Levy

16. It doesn't appear to search other text files such as source code (e.g. *.cs). Does anybody know if there's way to customize what text files it will index?

Gerry

Posted at 4:57AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Gerry

17. You could take that account that you want Google Desktop Search on, turn it into an Admin account. Run Google Desktop Search and let it finish indexing to be on the safe side, the turn the account back to Limites.

Posted at 4:57AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Math Wizxp

18. I liked what this program could do BUT it prevented me from loading large Word files - 10 megs or greater. No problem before installing Google Desktop Search - and none after I removed it. I have a gig of RAM so memory shortage should not have been a major problem. Any one else with the same/similar experience?

Also, it would not index files with RTF extension even if they were Word files.

Posted at 4:57AM on Dec 19th 2005 by David Wollrich