Google Desktop Good or Not?

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in Mac Software edited January 2014
I was just wondering if Google desktop is good for your Mac or not? Since spotlight has a already built in indexing app...



Does it slow down your system or cause errors?



Any feedback would be nice Thanks

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  • Reply 1 of 2
    toxotestoxotes Posts: 102member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by barpro View Post


    I was just wondering if Google desktop is good for your Mac or not? Since spotlight has a already built in indexing app...



    Does it slow down your system or cause errors?



    Any feedback would be nice Thanks



    I love Google Desktop on a PC so I was sometimes tempted by it when I had Tiger. Spotlight was sometimes frustratingly slow for me in Tiger, but since switching to Leopard Spotlight it's very fast, so I don't see any benefit to Google Desktop for a Leopard system. Just another system indexing tool using up resources to provide the same service only slightly differently. But if you're curious why not try it... I don't think it hurts anything and you can always get rid of it later if you don't like it. It does present results a little differently than Spotlight and maybe you'll prefer that.
  • Reply 2 of 2
    guinnessguinness Posts: 473member
    I don't trust Google enough to let them index my computers...Spotlight works great on Leopard anyhow.
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