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Google Desktop Invades Linux

Posted in News by Dan at 6:51 pm
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The online search giant has updated their popular desktop search tool for Linux computers, and in typical Google fashion it is released in beta form.

We signaled a commitment to the Linux community: to develop for the platform and to support our Linux users. Since then, we have been hard at work to improve and refine our product. Today, we’d like to share what we’ve created by releasing Google Desktop for Linux 1.1 Beta.

I wonder how many Linux users would bite?

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3 Responses to “Google Desktop Invades Linux”

  1. mark h says:
    10/14/2007 at 4:44 am

    Not I. Beagle does the job quite well (http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page).

    And who wants to give Google, of all people, access to all the information on their computer!

  2. Dan says:
    10/14/2007 at 1:33 pm

    …and Beagle doesn’t claim want to “know all about you.” as Google’s CEO publicly stated.

  3. chad says:
    10/14/2007 at 10:43 pm

    you’d think Google would just create their own f’ing distro by now.

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