Who's Talking About Google Desktop? Everyone!
Here's everyone I've noticed talking about Google Desktop:

• Google Blogoscoped -Did you ever wonder "What if Google, not Microsoft, would have made Windows?" Well, here's part of the answer: they'd build a search that works.
• Associated Press - As it is, the desktop search program provides Google with a powerful magnet to lure traffic from its chief online search rivals, Microsoft's MSN and Yahoo Inc., both of which have been improving their technology. "Other major search engines will undoubtedly launch similar offerings in the next few months but they will have to match Google's offering to keep their customers happy or best it to gain new converts," Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li wrote in a report Thursday. Google's program trumps Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft, which plans to deliver its long-awaited desktop search tool by the end of the year. AOL and another search engine maker, Ask Jeeves, are reportedly close to entering the fray. Yahoo said Thursday that it "remains highly focused on evolving our products to empower users to manage all their digital content wherever it may reside." The company's financial success already has turned its stock into a hot commodity, and Thursday's news provided another lift. Google's shares gained $1.10 to close at $142 on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The stock has surged by 67 percent since its initial public offering price less than two months ago. Google's desktop search program is so powerful that analysts cautioned computer users to carefully consider what kind of material they want indexed, particularly if they're sharing a computer with family, friends or office colleagues. Google plans eventually to offer some kind of password-protection to restrict desktop searches for individual users.
• Google's Blog
• Unofficial Google Weblog - Google Desktop Search blow Windows file-searching out of the water and high up on the sand where it lies gasping for life like a beached whale. I cannot imagine a single person who would not prefer Google’s system to the Windows system. And that statement, if remotely true, marks a gigantic milestone for Google and its centrality in the computing lives of most people. Also this post - I’m disappointed that Gmail is not supported in this first release. I’m even more disappointed that there is no image search, especially for Picasa users
• Boston Globe - The move puts Google a step ahead of rival software titan Microsoft Corp., which plans a similar product for later this year.
• Orlando Sentinel
• USA Today, which also has a how-to guide to Google Desktop
• ExtremeTech
• O'Reilly - In evaluating the Google Desktop as an interface to finding needles in my personal haystack, one thing sticks in my mind: I stumbled across an old email message I was sure I'd lost.
• The Register - not terribly original... it runs fine with Opera 7.5... Microsoft's plans are much more ambitious... Google Desktop Search is no match for existing premium products, of which the $199 dtSearch is probably the most accomplished, and X1 the most recent.
• Los Angeles Times - Google, however, appears acutely aware of the fierce competition. Although Google Desktop can search through conversations conducted with AOL Instant Messenger, it doesn't work with programs from Yahoo or Microsoft.
• Internet Search Engine Database - Yesterday: the World... Tomorrow: Your Desktop
• E-Commerce Times - "When Microsoft is motivated, the company can really crank out product," he said. "We saw roughly three versions of Internet Explorer released in 18 months during the height of the browser wars. It's a big company with a lot of R&D dollars."
• Wired News
• BBC
• Washington Post - It's ironic that until now, it's been easier to search 6 billion documents on the Internet than it has been to find a single file on your hard drive... Google's release of the software ahead of Microsoft and the others may pose a problem for competitors, Sullivan said, because the personal archiving capability likely will grow more valuable to users over time, making it harder to switch to another search engine product.
• Reuters - Microsoft also is expected to be adding search technology to Longhorn, the next version of its operating system slated for release in 2006. {NOPE. OOPS.}
• John Battelle's Searchblog and here as well - Google isn't competing with Microsoft on the browser front - that would be madness. It's competing with Microsoft on its own terms and its own turf... Just results in the Google interface. How's that for a lightweight OS?.. (Marrissa Mayer, director of consumer products, says,) "The desktop relevance scheme lacks Pagerank (of course), but it does incorporate the other 150 factors (Google uses on the web) - factors like are the (keywords) together, in bold, related, things like that."
• Search Engine Lowdown has a review, a note on who quoted Andy Beal in their stories, and another one, plus speculation that pressure from Microsoft forced Google to release it early.
• Google Press Release
• Mercury News
• SEO Roundtable - lists the forums that are talking about it
• Search Engine Journal and here
• Webstractions
• Search Engine Watch Blog
• Search Engine Watch and an article on privacy issues
• Greg Linden's Geeking With Greg - I've installed it, and I'm impressed
• Slashdot - It's Windows-only, but still cool enough for this Mac guy to find it intriguing.
• Ars Technica, which notes that it mentioned Google Desktop under its codename, Puffin, way back on May 19, as did CNet.
• Zorgloob, which also points out the Google Desktop index files, located at C:\Documents and Settings\Nathan Weinberg\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Desktop Search (unless your name isn't Nathan Weinberg), and on my system take up 355 megabytes!
Findory Finds:

• Crumb Trail - I feel like my vision has been enhanced or something, took the blinders off, rose above the fog.
• A Welsh View - an excellent tool
12:10 - More:
• New Scientist - [computer scientist who designs new search technologies at the University of Washington, Seattle, US., Oren] Etzioni predicts that search engines of the future will index audio and video, as well as text.
• Media Post

- posted by Nathan Weinberg @ 10/15/2004 11:57:00 AM