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Google Desktop Search on Ubuntu

By Adam Myers ⋅ July 19, 2007 ⋅

I’m a little late to the game, once again, but here is my quick Good, Bad, Ugly review on the recently released Google Desktop Search for Linux.

Good

• Easy installation in Ubuntu using the provided .deb package
• Starts automatically at boot
• Integrates Local Search into normal Google results in your browser
• Quick Search access by hitting Control Control
• Respects my GNOME default applications when opening files returned in results page

Bad

• A little CPU heavy on my Centrino Laptop
• File writes/updates are perceivably slower

Ugly

• Look and Feel not with the rest of my GNOME/GTK theme
• The Beagle Project is still king of Desktop Search for me