Cursed SiliconHEY, #retrocomputing youtube folk. I made a new video!
I resurrected Google's "Search Appliance". The software that ran on those bright yellow Google servers they used to sell!
Go check it out and stuff!
https://youtu.be/bjrmH7hVBOo
matt wilkie@CursedSilicon@social.restless.systems that's cool, kudos. Could this be a resurrection from same era I yearn for daily: Google Desktop Search?
2x-tap ctrl, type whatever, find stuff on your own machine with the same ease and speed as we've been doing for 20 years for stuff on other side of the world.
Today's Everything Search is really good, a current go to for me, but doesn't index inside files.
Cursed Silicon@maphew@vmst.io I never used Google Desktop Search unfortunately, so I'm not familiar with what powers it!
If I remember, it integrated with the XP taskbar? So it may not work correctly with newer versions of Windows
matt wilkie@CursedSilicon@social.restless.systems yes it added a search box to task bar. I'm not sure that was essential, I certainly rarely used it. More common was to launch it with keyboard shortcut and a floating search box would open in center of display.
I just found v5.8 here (unverified) - https://google-desktop-search.en.uptodown.com/windows/download
I remember being amazed a mere 2MB download could accomplish so much, and pondering just how much extra work it apparently took to make something Enterprisey (permissions, access control, more file types, centralized admin, large index storage, simultaneous access) from a core good idea or function.
matt wilkie@CursedSilicon@social.restless.systems around the same time I attempted to roll my own search appliance using Namazu - http://www.namazu.org/.
It worked not bad too! Until I tried more than just me 😂
then I learned how important good user interface design is for most folks
And that a retired front desk clerk's computer was nowhere near hefty enough for simultaneous users