I've been using Google Desktop Search for a few months now and I'm really happy with it. Also I did not index any of my source files, just DOC, TXT, PDF (basically whatever it can search out of the box).
I don't get false results (unless I move files around a lot, and I usually don't do that). Usually the results are fast and precise, usually very useful considering I'm anything but organized and stuff is all over the place! My guess is that Human is using a bad module (the thing that enables GDS to get the content of files) and that's what's causing the false results. Again, I'm not using anything outside the box. Never revisited the site after downloading and installing the thing. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:delphi-talk- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Meek > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 1:18 PM > To: 'Delphi-Talk Discussion List' > Subject: RE: Using Google Desktop to index my Delphi documentation > > Human, > Offensive language is NOT tolerated on any of the Lists. Please be > more careful in the future! > Are you indexing just the titles or are you actually doing word > searches within the documents? Why not use a regular database and your > own > client to do this? What advantages did you hope to get by using Google's? > > from Robert Meek dba Tangentals Design CCopyright 2006 > > "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion > that the gift of Fantasy has meant more to me then my talent for absorbing > positive knowledge!" > Albert Einstein > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:delphi-talk- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Human > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 5:19 AM > To: Delphi-Talk Discussion List > Subject: Using Google Desktop to index my Delphi documentation > > Few months ago I got this brilliant idea about using Google desktop to > index > my Delphi > documentation. > I have a large partition with lots of DOC, HTML and PDF file all > containing > Delphi tips, FAQs and > snippets and I used Windows Commander to search in that partition. > > Google Desktop took 2 weeks to index everything eating my memory, and when > was ready it wasn't > extraordinary, returning to much garbage results. > So I stopped using it after 2 weeks. > Yesterday I've tried to uninstall it (and to recover 2 GB of space it need > it for its data base) > and the uninstall process failed. > So I delete the files manually. After restart my Windows didn't load. It > really fucked up my > computer. > Google Desktop seems to integrate itself in Explorer and in the module > that > control the Internet > connection (socks provider) and now without those DLL, windows failed to > start. > > > > So this is a warning: if somebody else has this 'brilliant' idea, like me, > FORGET IT!!!! > > > (PS: I was also concerned about the way it installed itself as a server > being connected and > transmitting data all the time to google.com) > > ...and the traveler died, stroked by the beauty of the landscape. > > THE MORNING OF THE MAGICIANS > Louis Pawels & Jacques Bergier > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > __________________________________________________ > Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk > > __________________________________________________ > Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
