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Mon, 16 Jul 2007

Is the Google indexing all it is cracked up to be?

Like a lot of people, I've install Google Desktop for Linux.

First off, I've installed Beagle and Tracker before. So, I've played with a couple of these things. Obviously since I've installed GDL I felt that none of the existing Free Software solutions worked as well as I expected.

A while back I read Joe Shaw's note about how Beagle is tested with ~180K files. I considered this for a moment and realised that is why Beagle would turn my system into a pile of steaming dog poo.

My home directory has, normally, over 1,000,000 files (currently 893790 as I deleted some things before I fired up gtk-gnutella).

Considering Google handles web indexes significantly larger, you'd assume that their desktop search would be more than capable.

Alas.

I've had it installed for a week and it has achieved a 5% index. At least it does not chew up memory and only causes excessive CPU load. Oh, and the fact that it must have a browser (seemingly only Iceweasel will do) to use makes it even less useful. I'd let someone know but Google is also in on the whole "Let's make it as arduous as possible to report a problem" caper that seems to be common nowadays. Oh, well.

They went to all that time and effort to make a Debian package, why not put in the extra few minutes of work so that reportbug Just Works.

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