{"id":58,"date":"2004-10-14T16:41:53","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T21:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2004-10-14T16:44:47","modified_gmt":"2004-10-14T21:44:47","slug":"google-releases-beta-desktop-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/google-releases-beta-desktop-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Releases Beta Desktop Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/wp-photos\/googledesktop.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"72\" alt=\"Google Search\" \/>Yes, I know I&#8217;ve been writing a lot about Google lately&#8230; but they just keep releasing cool things! Today the released a new piece of software that lets you use their incredible search engine to search certain files on your computer. Once you download and install this little app, a &#8220;desktop&#8221; tab is added to the google site when you pull it up on your machine. This sallows you to search within several different file types on your machine including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Outlook &#038; Outlook Express E-mail messages<\/li>\n<li>AOL Instant Messenger sessions <\/li>\n<li>Internet Explorer history<\/li>\n<li>Word documents<\/li>\n<li> PowerPoint files<\/li>\n<li>Excel files<\/li>\n<li>  Text documents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It seems to work pretty well althought I&#8217;d like it to search within more file types. What about PDF&#8217;s? It doesn&#8217;t search within Mozilla or Firefox&#8217;s history, just IE. Google does <a href=\"http:\/\/desktop.google.com\/support\/bin\/answer.py?answer=10135\">address this<\/a> in their <a href=\"http:\/\/desktop.google.com\/support\">help area<\/a>. It is still in beta, so hopefully more features aren&#8217;t too far off. It definitely does a better job than the window&#8217;s find (I CAN&#8217;T STAND THAT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nexusconcepts.com\/xpsearch\/dog.gif\">STUPID DOG<\/a>) for those particular file types. <a href=\"http:\/\/desktop.google.com\">Give it a try<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know I&#8217;ve been writing a lot about Google lately&#8230; but they just keep releasing cool things! Today the released a new piece of software that lets you use their incredible search engine to search certain files on your computer. Once you download and install this little app, a &#8220;desktop&#8221; tab is added to&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/google-releases-beta-desktop-search\/\" title=\"Read Google Releases Beta Desktop Search\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}