{"id":187,"date":"2011-09-15T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=187"},"modified":"2021-11-17T11:21:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:21:15","slug":"google-desktop-search-not-supported-anymore-affecting-pim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Google Desktop Search not supported anymore &#8211; affecting PIM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Yahoo! Search in the market and indexing integrated into new windows versions, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9219741\/Google_puts_Desktop_app_out_to_pasture\">Google decided to ditch Google desktop<\/a>. Their announcement claims that <strong>people are more trusty of a cloud computing nowadays<\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_Desktop\">keeping the desktop version<\/a> is not necessary anymore. However this can not be the real reason. While cloud computing is becoming more present in everyday life, <strong>desktop is not going anywhere soon<\/strong> for at least 4 reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SATA drives are faster.<\/li>\n<li>ISPs all over the world are putting caps in their plans.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t think of any moneywise online solution to store my 300GB of data I accumulated over 20 years.<\/li>\n<li>A lot of people trust their local storage more than the cloud. Local storage is always available while cloud might not be sometimes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying it is not going to happen. I just don&#8217;t see it happening right now. So there must be something else behind their decision. The one I can think of is <strong>no viable monetizing solution of the product<\/strong> (could they access private data for advertising??).<\/p>\n<p> Whatever the reason, this can not drastically change the way people manage their information (and Information Retrieval as a part of it). As mentioned, there are other solutions available. <\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;m surprised <strong>Google is putting all their bets on cloud and nothing else<\/strong>. Wouldn&#8217;t it be better to <strong>combine cloud and desktop <\/strong>together (such us Ubuntu One for example)? On the other hand they are <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17939_109-20099531-2\/google-restores-offline-abilities-for-gmail-docs\/\">allowing to use their apps offline<\/a> keeping local copy of information on the desktop! Am I the only one who sees the conflict here?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/qsb_mac.jpg\" class=\"no_float\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Yahoo! Search in the market and indexing integrated into new windows versions, Google decided to ditch Google desktop. Their announcement claims that people are more trusty of a cloud computing nowadays and keeping the desktop version is not necessary anymore. However this can not be the real reason. While cloud computing is becoming more&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/1514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}