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Google Desktop: Hypeless Innovation

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:

Would you Google yourself in front of others?
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Posted by Weiqi Gao on October 16, 2004 7:13:45 AM CDT #


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Would you do it?

TrackBack from The Wannabe Java Rockstar on October 16, 2004 8:30:34 AM CDT #
Weiqi raises a question: Would you Google yourself in front of others? I just googled for me and could not find anything embarrassing. So yes, I would.
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TrackBack from Unruly Rambling on October 16, 2004 10:57:51 AM CDT #

After fully indexing my drive, I've been using the google desktop for about 24hrs now on my work laptop. I have to say it is quite useful and I believe it has already become one of those must have utilities. I'm still a little curious why it doe...


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