Before:

[weiqi@gao] $ df c:
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
c:                    13109008  11566560   1542448  89% /cygdrive/c

After:

[weiqi@gao] $ df c:
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
c:                    13109008  11801940   1307068  91% /cygdrive/c

My index is only 2%:

[weiqi@gao] $ bc -l
size_before = 11566560
size_after = 11801940
size_index = size_after - size_before
235380
size_index/size_before
.02035004357388886583

Hmm, I thought I should have a Bigger One^TM.

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Posted by Weiqi Gao on October 16, 2004 9:08:05 AM CDT #

Google is a curious company. First their internet search engine took off like wild fire. Yet I don't remember seeing any Google ads. In fact I don't even remember thinking "How odd, nobody's seen any Google ads" until it was pointed out by Paul Graham's article What the Bubble Got Right.

Then during the past 24 hours, I was bombarded with praises of Google Desktop:

Eric Burke: Google Desktop kicks ass.

Cedric Beust: Google Desktop Search radically changed the way I search on my computer. Check it out!

Kevin Heifner: Way cool!

It just happened. There were no preannouncements a year ago. We don't know what the codename for the project was while they were working on it. I didn't hear them talking about metadata, indexing techniques.

Now, here's my question:

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Posted by Weiqi Gao on October 16, 2004 7:13:45 AM CDT #