Now this is impressive. I had gotten used to the original Google Desktop Search to the point of just minimizing and embedding it into my start bar but this new release is just incredible. They have added useful plugins (the single most important thing in Firefox, and IMHO the only reason its being so widely adopted) and they seem to be pretty generic but very well put together for me. My email, my rss feeds, my news, my pictures, a scratchpad (will this end my use of Notepad?) and a whole bunch more. I am very impressed.
Disappointment? It’s a beta. Now unlike Microsofts definition of beta (“broken”), Google seems to have another definition: “we haven’t figured out how to make money off it yet” and that is quite sad. There are Google applications that I have used for a long time yet they are still in beta. Same with Microsoft. Are they both afraid of putting a release stamp on something so that they have a piece of software to be evaluated and compared on? I honestly do not understand it. I inherently distrust both MSN and Google on all these applications, despite the “do no evil” mantra, but I do have to admit that I am very impressed with both the desktop and the msn screen savers.
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