Offline Search?
Brian Chabot
brian at datasquire.net
Fri Jun 6 02:59:34 EDT 2008
Thomas Charron wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>
While Google Desktop would work with some minor tweaking, it's still not
quite stand-alone. It requires an installation on each system.
I suppose one option would be a stand-alone Apache installation for each
OS and htdig, but that only indexes HTML and TXT files...
Brian
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