Why does the google desktop search suck so much? It’s the only google product I hate. It regularly fails to find things that definitely do exist, its index doesn’t update very fast so it’s continually telling me that files that it’s produced for me in the search results don’t exist, it doesn’t seem to do […]
Every time a programmer goes away for a few days, a piece of infrastructure they know best breaks. That’s just Murphy’s Algorithm. If they they had only written a 100-word overview with some examples, that would have saved someone else a painstaking day figuring out how things should work, why they suddenly don’t, and righting […]
Whoever adopted the idea that “there’s a place for everything, and everything in its place” when it came to organizing files and ideas on a computer suffered from a failure of imagination. Or maybe they were just over-wedded to the desktop and filing cabinet metaphors. Fortunately, the idea of ‘tagging’ (or ‘labels’ in Google’s parlance) […]
Until recently, it was easier to find something amidst the five zillion pages on the web than it was to find something on your own hard disk. It would be faster to Google for something than to burrow through subdirectories looking for it. Could this be because the files on my hard disk are poorly […]
Greg Detre 