Re: Wolfram plugin for Google Desktop Search
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- Subject: [mg55197] Re: Wolfram plugin for Google Desktop Search
- From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 05:36:31 -0500 (EST)
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
John Fultz wrote: > As some people have already discovered, we've released a plug-in we've > called Wolfram Notebook Indexer for Google Desktop Search. This plug-in > allows GDS to index all of the Mathematica notebooks on your system, and > does not require Mathematica to be installed. > > This is a product which has, in some form or another, been in development > and use for some time in-house. In response to the enthusiasm a number of > users have expressed, we decided to release a version early in the form of > a public beta, which you can get here... > > http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/Utilities/5596/ > > There's also a link to it from the Wolfram home page at www.wolfram.com. > > We don't have a schedule for a final release, yet. We'll continue > development on Wolfram Notebook Indexer (as well as various other related > searching projects we haven't announced, yet) with the help of your > feedback from the public beta. As noted in the above link, bug reports and > suggestions for Wolfram Notebook Indexer beta should be emailed to > prerelease at wolfram.com. > > John Fultz > jfultz at wolfram.com > User Interface Group > Wolfram Research, Inc. > > John, Can you tell us exactly how much GDS breaches our security? Does it transmit information back to GOOGLE, for example - people are starting to get a bit paranoid about GOOGLE! I would like to try this product if I were sure it was safe. David Bailey dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk