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Re:Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services? by danesparza on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:21PM (#31853174)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance
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Re:Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services? by kybernetikos on Thursday June 23, 2022 @04:05PM (#31854486)
That's a good one, but I was thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop

> Google Desktop was a computer program with desktop search capabilities, created by Google for Linux, Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows systems. It allowed text searches of a user's email messages, computer files, music, photos, chats, Web pages viewed, and the ability to display "Google Gadgets" on the user's desktop in a Sidebar.

Discontinued in September 2011

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Re:Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services? by prepend on Friday June 24, 2022 @07:47AM (#31860364)
Google desktop was so great. It’s also weird how bad windows search and Mac search sucks.

Google desktop was able to find files anywhere in milliseconds. Still today if I search for a file on windows it takes many seconds and frequently misses the file. And there’s an indexing service that seems to peg my cpu every once in a while.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services? by hashim on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:17AM (#31860634)
You want Everything. I've been using it for probably close to 10 years now, it makes searching on Windows not just bearable, but capable.
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