Part II: Google Rides Again

Okay, more on Google Desktop Search. (see my first post on desktop search for random open source ponderings.)

I've been playing with the stuff, and it seems that Google -- as per usual -- has a well defined privacy policy and a fair number of supported filetypes. As of this fall, support for indexing Firefox history and PDF files was lacking, but I think they're in the process of adding this (I know they've been working closely with Adobe on this front).

But the key thing is that with the Google Drive, and with Google desktop search, we're getting closer and closer to Larry Ellison's once-and-future vision of the Network Computer.

The key thing is that this time it's coming via software -- and Ellison and McNealy always tried to sell it as a hardware-first implementation, with software as the add-on to the vision. Instead, it seems that Google and companies like them have really nailed how the vision will be realized -- through software FIRST, and then with any type of hardware you can cobble together.