I’m wondering how Google Desktop will handle indexing on the Mac?
On Windows Google Desktop index files grow up to multiple GB file sizes. So the question that came to my mind is: does Google Desktop make use of the Spotlight index or will Google create it’s own local index from scratch?
Spotlight obviously stores its index somewhere on the hard drive and I think it must be already quite large, supposedly more than a GB on my MacBook. I don’t want another local search application to create a second index, parallel to Spotlight’s, containing more or less the same information – there is only one local drive to index – and clutter up my hard drive with a few GB of index files.
Besides, Spotlight does a fairly well job. Extended by some plugins it searches within my del.icio.us bookmarks, Open Office documents or online on Google.
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