Google Desktop Update

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12 points·Uncle_Sam··4 comments

The only thing really worth reading, as the rest is essentially excuses:

>As of September 14, Google Desktop will no longer be available for download, and existing installations will not be updated to include new features or fixes.

Can we change the title to be something more like "Google Desktop: being dropped"? Update implies 'something is changing', not 'everything is going away', and that's really all there is to this blog post.

Excuses are for when you know you've done something wrong and wish to be forgiven. I dont think they've done anything wrong, and more importantly, I doubt many at google think they've done anything wrong. Google desktop is ancient and designed for a very different time; I can't imagine which of its features I would use these days.

I'll rephrase that - excuses to avoid saying "we're on the chopping block". Though in general I still stand by the term - there's no content in the paragraph before that statement. It's essentially "it's a good product, the cloud and OS-driven search killed us" - in what way is that not merely an attempt to avoid users' wrath?

As to uses, it's still much faster than Windows' search in my experience. And has fewer errors - I've had 'results' from Windows' search that were incorrect since 3 days ago, with a computer that was on > 12 hours per day.

Makes sense. Google is really pushing for the cloud.

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