Honestly? I don’t yet know what GDS Mac gives me that I don’t get from a pop3 archive of my gmail account and Google Importer for Spotlight…

This seems interesting, if only for the facility that allows you to index your personal bookmarks with high priority in Google searches. I’ve told Google repeatedly that I would switch to Google Bookmarks (from del.icio.us) if they would add bookmark search to the main Google search results, but now it looks like I might not have to. If I sync del.icio.us with Safari, and then get Google Desktop Search to index those bookmarks, I could be all set!

I haven’t installed the software yet, though… does GDS allow you to only index bookmarks, or would I have to go whole-hog with my hard drive as well? If the latter, I’ll definitely skip the whole thing.

It archives the whole hard drive, although apparently it won’t index anything you exclude from spotlight searches.

The nice part, to me, was the speed at which it adds Safari history to the index - it must be well-nigh instant, as pages I had visited a minute ago showed up in the results. And it reminded me how nice it would be if I could include mail messages in my Quicksilver catalog (perhaps that’s possible, but I haven’t figured it out). However, my interest in it is more about how it would influence Alcor et al. to add features to QS than any real need to run it myself. It’s just not a QS replacement by a long shot, which is fine.

I haven’t installed GDS on my MacBook yet, but I have been using it on my main Windows work PC for a year. I really like it. It searches my E-Mail, GMail and RSS feed archive instantly and the results are easy to sort through. No, you can’t do anything with the search results like you can with Quicksilver, but that really isn’t the point.

Use it for a week before giving up on it. Also, at least in the windows version, it’s not a resource hog.

One thing I like to use GDS for is call screening. I put the phone number from the caller ID into it and see if I want to talk with them :)

I just got here googling via quicksilver for “butt-sucking.” Totally disappointed.

I use Windows in my work environment and Mac at home. I find Google Desktop (and Launchy) quite useful on the PC as there is no Spotlight\Quicksilver. While I haven’t tried GDS on the Mac, my first reaction upon hearing the news of a Mac version was “Why would you need that?”.

Spotlight fits the bill for me on the Mac.

I’ve already turned it off. The best part for me was being able to search my GMail from the desktop, but I had problems with the system being slow/unresponsive which seemed to start yesterday and ended today when I disabled it and rebooted.

I’m glad they’re making one, but I hope it gets better soon.

I will admit happily that Google has released some great software for the big 3 OS’s (windows, OSX, Linux) I do not know how GDS mac is useful. I can do everything I need with Spotlight and Quicksilver. It would make more sense to me if it worked on 10.3 although I dont think there are many people still using it. But like anything else a personal computer is about comfort, it gives Mac users another tool to work with their data. More power to those who need GDS.

Peace.

I have been toying with it and like it, but it doesn’t outdo QS+Spotlight in any way - except the incorporated search in GMail - together with Mail.app (which is a given of course)

I suspect the chances of survival would very much improve with an QS plug in!

No final verdict yet.

I used GD for a day and then baleeted it earlier today. There seemed to be nothing it offered that Quicksilver didn’t do better. There was just no added value in keeping GD around…