Comments on: What Google Desktop Installs

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:16:10 +0000

I'm pretty disappointed in it. It's a wonderful addition to an XP PC, but on OSX it feels beta, and the web browser interface just feels wrong. Spotlight is slower (a little) yes, but it's also infinitely less annoying to me. That bezel that pops up: Crashed on me three times in one day (BTW, force quit is useless for it). Nope, not for me. The only thing I want is spotlight to have a Gmail importer, that doesn't require me downloading my mail via pop.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:24:03 +0000

After running for about another day, I guess it got around to doing some more indexing. Searching works now, and it seems to be much faster than Spotlight. It still says it’s done indexing, but according to “top” and the sound of the hard disk, it’s furiously indexing, and “mdimport” has crashed ten times this morning in “InterceptedGetMetadataForFile()”.

By: Andy Lee

Andy Lee — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:41:04 +0000

Thanks. At least it can't be any worse than Adobe... I hope:

http://snoozology.blogsome.com/2006/09/23/adobes-assault-on-my-sanity/

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:19:58 +0000

Pierre Igot adds his thoughts:

When mounted, the “GoogleDesktop.dmg” image file is a volume that contains a single application called “Double Click to Install Google Desktop.app.” Oh dear.

When I quit the Google Updater application that I launched from the disk image, the disk image is automatically unmounted.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:25:23 +0000

I opened the installer a second time, and it re-downloaded and re-installed the same version that I already had. Then, when it said Installation Complete, it offered up an Uninstall button.

By: Andy Lee

Andy Lee — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:58:49 +0000

I don't like the sound of it. Does it come with an uninstall option, at least?