GDS Plus allows Google Desktop Search to search text files. Use this GDSPlus.conf where I've added the "tex" and "bib" extensions and your LaTeX and BibTex files will be indexed and searchable. A great benefit for those of us who can't keep track of which theorems and definitions we put in which papers.
One "small" issue with Google Desktop Search, I'm told, is that it is installed as Administrator and indexes all files. So if you are sharing a machine, other users on the machine can see parts of your files.
ReplyDeleteThis is not exactly a flaw with GDS but with Windows. For more
ReplyDelete(not sure if unbiased) information read:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2004/11/desktop_google.html
where Bruce Schneier gives his full explanation of the problem.
--marc
This is as good a place as any for this rant. How, exactly, can a factual analysis of a single software tool be "biased"? He did not even make any claim at all about the merits of one OS over another. Even if he did, the facts may very well have merited what you call bias.
ReplyDeleteWhat would unbias a technical article? Some nonsense fluffy blurb about how all operating systems are insecure? Or some specific salve for a totally valid criticism of (foo) OS? Can we please keep this analysis-by-skepticism-and-doubt to complex and emotional fields, like politics? In engineering and science fields, attacks should be made mercilessly. In engineering, it is actually a moral imperative to do so, lest people and the economy suffer.
be careful. I hope you read this article :)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/20/technology/20flaw.html
Already fixed.
ReplyDeletethis article is so old, 2004 guys!
ReplyDeletei am searching for latex in google search and come to this place