Google isn't content with giving you the power to search the
Internet.
A recently filed patent points to them developing a Windows
or Mac desktop search tool that can search for your local files as reported in
the article “Google
could soon be searching your desktop too”, published August 16, 2015 By
David Nield, Digitaltrends.
The patent, titled Computer
Application Data In Search Results as reported in the article “Google
Files For Patent To Search Your Desktop Files, Apps And Cloud Storage”,
published August 17, 2015 By Menchie Mendoza, Tech Times covers the search for the
following on your desktop:
1.
Native Applications
2.
Remote Services
3.
Registered Applications
Curiously, this sounds a lot like Google Desktop Search that
Google had cancelled back on Friday, September 2nd, 2011 as reported
on their last blog post “Google
Desktop Update”.
Their reasons given was that the users had shifted away from
Desktop Storage to Website and Cloud Storage, which possibly prompted them to
upgrade their Google Drive offerings from 5GB to 15GB in April 2013 as reported
in my Geezam blog article entitled “Google Drive,
the Dropbox clone, now ups the ante to 15GB of Free Storage during Google I/O”.
You cannot download new versions of Google Desktop to search
your Windows or Mac computer as they've discontinued the service.
This is also a lot like Apple's Spotlight, their serviced in
Apple iOS 9 that allows you to search for apps, files and virtually anything on
your smartphone as well as in Apple iCloud as reported in my Geezam blog article entitled “Apple
WWDC 2015 debuts OS X 10.11, Watch OS 2.0 and Apple Music”.
Google Desktop
Search Patent hints at Return - Why Google's Alphabet is based on the coming of
1TB SSD Drives
If implemented, most likely Google will ask your permission
to search your desktop as explained n the article “Google
could soon search your desktop, too”, published Aug 14, 2015 by Chris
Burns, Slashgear.
Google basically wants to pick your brain to send you more
advertising while you search for stuff you cannot find using Windows Explorer
to locate the item. Especially if it's tucked away deep in your computer's 1TB
SSD (Solid State) hard-drive and you’re having difficulty finding it in a
minefield of folders!
Something tells me that this service will be met with a lot
of skepticism, especially with Google's track record relating to privacy.
Still, very few viable alternatives that users approve of to
search your every growing Terabyte Harddrive storage exist as listed in the
article “Five
Best Desktop Search Applications”, published March 3 2013 by Alan Henry, Lifehacker and “What
Are the Fastest Tools for Windows Desktop Search?”, published July 29,
2015, Make Use Of.
Here's the list for Windows users, with a few surprise
entrants:
1.
Windows Search
2.
Everything
3.
Listary
4.
Lookeen Free
There are special Desktop Search Applications for Mac and
Linux Users, albeit if you have Finder and now Spotlight now coming in
September 2015 with Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan, you might now want these
third-party alternatives if you're a Mac user:
There are tons more as listed in the article 19
Best Free Desktop File Search Software.
But with no clear favourites and Google's ecosystem of
products now organized into an alphabet of companies as reported in my blog article
entitled “@Google
Inc is now Alphabet Inc – Why an Alphabet Soup of Business Structure means
better Engineering Project Success” and the coming of larger and cheaper
1TB SSD (Solid State Drives), effective Desktop Search will be needed to search
these ever-growing Personal Clouds.
Here’s the link:
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