Google Desktop 2.0

[Sava]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Useful in the same way that crack is useful.

but I think crack should be legal... and WoW not...

[Verto]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Useful in the same way that crack is useful.

Is there any amount of money that could be offered you, to keep you from posting? I mean, between your outrageous collection of civ icons, not to mention the substance, or lack thereof, of your actual posts..

[Timexwatch]

Originally posted by Verto


Is there any amount of money that could be offered you, to keep you from posting? I mean, between your outrageous collection of civ icons, not to mention the substance, or lack thereof, of your actual posts..

The following picture sums up my feelings on the matter:



Think of that what you will.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Verto
Is there any amount of money that could be offered you, to keep you from posting? I mean, between your outrageous collection of civ icons, not to mention the substance, or lack thereof, of your actual posts..

More than you'll ever have.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Asher
I don't think Google Desktop competes with Firefox...

One is a desktop information centre and the other is a web browser. Sometimes they overlap.

google desktop 1.0 was searching your hard drive. v2.0 is displaying content from the web but somehow it doesnt compete with web browsers

right....

I do think it's utterly retarded that you ask for less competition just because an open source project may have similar functionality. That is a brilliant opinion.

hey, it's google that publishes itself as an enlighted company that wont do evil things for the quick $

[Asher]

Originally posted by MarkG
google desktop 1.0 was searching your hard drive. v2.0 is displaying content from the web but somehow it doesnt compete with web browsers

right....

I guess Trillian is also competing with Firefox.

Google Desktop and Firefox don't compete. When I click a link in Google Desktop it opens in a Firefox tab...

They both offer some form of RSS integration, but then again that's the whole point of RSS.

Speaking of RSS, stop using my Plus money to buy computers and then use those computers to make mind-boggling stupid arguments online. Implement RSS on Apolyton.

I also want an RSS feed of my subscribed threads. I'm sure Gramphous can do that if you can't.

[Ted Striker]

I was gonna install it but I don't think it has Lotus Notes support except for the Enterprise Edition.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Asher


I don't find it that useless, but then again I don't have a toy computer that looks pretty instead of doing useful things.

playing games is the only useful thing a computer can do. that and play porn.

[FrostyBoy]

A built in Tetris game! good idea
Something to do when you're waiting for something

[Dis]

and post here. I forgot about that one. perhaps the most important function of a computer.

[Blake]

Okay I havn't tried Google Desktop before, but it's pretty cool so far. Seems pretty smart at picking up things, almost creepy. I might even keep the sidebar up, it's not too large and has handy things like a scratch pad. Seems to work great with firefox too .

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Asher
Google Desktop and Firefox don't compete. When I click a link in Google Desktop it opens in a Firefox tab...

they are not ready to publicise their own browser yet

Speaking of RSS, stop using my Plus money to buy computers and then use those computers to make mind-boggling stupid arguments online.

if i had to use apolyton profits to get computer i would get a new pc every 15 years

Implement RSS on Apolyton.

I also want an RSS feed of my subscribed threads. I'm sure Gramphous can do that if you can't.

i thought you wanted to stop being a plus member and get a refund. anyway, get a lifetime subscription and i'll add it

[Starchild]

oooh. The picture floating bar thingy is pretty. That's all I'd really want anyway as Firefox already is set up to do most of the stuff this does.

but I have a MIGHTY NEED to view my pictures in a small, floating window on random selection.

[Asher]

Originally posted by MarkG
they are not ready to publicise their own browser yet

Considering they employ the main programmers of Firefox, I don't think you have to worry about them competing with it.

[Asher]

Rumour has it Google's instant messenger is to launch tomorrow, "Google Talk": http://talk.google.com

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-fi-google23aug23,0,1191504.story

Google to Deliver Instant Messages
# The service may start as early as Wednesday, sources say. The firm will face tough rivals.

By Chris Gaither, Times Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO — Watchers of Google Inc. soon will have something new to chat about — and with.

Continuing its rapid expansion into new product categories, the Internet search giant plans to launch an instant messaging program called Google Talk as early as Wednesday, according to people familiar with the service.

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The new service follows by just a few days the introduction of Google Sidebar, which pulls news stories, photographs, weather updates, stock quotes and other features onto a user's computer without opening a Web browser.

With all the new services, Google now competes with Internet portals such as Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Time Warner Inc.'s America Online squarely on their turf, even as those companies encroach onto Google's with updated search engines.

Google has been playing catch-up with many products, such as e-mail, a personalized home page at Google.com and online maps. The goal is to get consumers to stay longer, rather than simply search for websites and then click away.

Compiling a list of buddies to chat with through instant messaging provides the kind of "stickiness" these companies covet.

"Like any big company, they've got a brand name, and they've got to keep extending it," said John Tinker, an analyst at Think Equity Partners who had not seen Google Talk.

"Because the reality is, there's not a whole lot of difference between their search [engine] and anyone else's."

According to a person who has seen the service, Google plans to let users chat using more than just their keyboards. Like similar programs from competitors, Google Talk also will let computer users with a headset have voice conversations with other computer users with headsets, this person said.

One source said Google intended to release the product Wednesday. Another source did not know when Google planned to release Google Talk, but said the company had been testing the service for at least a month.

A spokeswoman for Mountain View, Calif.-based Google said early Monday that the company planned to release a new product this week. She declined later in the day to say whether that product was Google Talk.

Google faces an uphill battle in persuading people to change instant messaging programs. These services are useful only if friends and family members also use it, and competing services from AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft have been available for years.

AOL plans in September to introduce a new version of its popular AOL Instant Messenger, or AIM, program that lets users send e-mail and text messages to mobile phones. In addition, customers of AOL's voice over Internet protocol service will be able use their AIM buddy lists to initiate calls to phones, not just computers. AIM leads the instant messaging pack, with 41.6 million U.S. users in July, according to research firm ComScore Media Metrix. Yahoo Messenger had 19.1 million users, and Microsoft's MSN Messenger had 14.1 million.

But Google has not shied away from introducing products to compete with already entrenched competitors. When it launched its search engine in 1998, the field was crowded with companies that Google and the Internet crash have since put out of business.

Even if Google Talk doesn't turn out to be revolutionary, Tinker said, "I don't think that matters."