Offline Search?

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Thu Jun 5 11:51:33 EDT 2008


On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 11:01 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Brian Chabot <brian at datasquire.net> wrote:
>> > Does anyone know of a decent offline, cross-platform search engine?
>> > What I'm looking for is something like Google Desktop
>> > http://desktop.google.com
>> > ...but for offline use.
>>   Call me crazy, but isn't everything you described Google Desktop itself?!?!
> I had exactly the same thought.
> Ooh, neat, didn't know Google had yum repos now...

  I think Brian underestimated the actual power of the Google Desktop
widgets.  I personally use them while interacting with google itself,
but they also function offline standalone VERY well.

-- 
-- Thomas


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