Where is useful/Google desktop search for Linux?

Windows has it's Desktop Search. Mac has Spotlight. (Both have Google Desktop.) Linux has… Well, nothing useful.

Linux has Beagle. Beagle is simple to use, but shows too many matches, as summarized by a competing search software.

It is quiet painful to use Beagle as there are so many results that have no value to anyone. You can bet the one document you are looking for is hidden away in between some hundred other results. You get one or two documents, a song, a bunch of emails, and tons of scrap files from your home directory.

Beagle says it sorts by relevance. But to whom the results are relevant remains a mystery.

Google, I welcome you. Please invade my privacy. Just make your desktop search available for Linux!

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5 comments

There's also the Gnome project called Tracker.

I'm not sure how good its results are, since I usually quite organised. But it may be interesting to give it a try?

Comment by Roel Groeneveld at 2007-06-25 @592.

Meta Tracker does not even support emails nor contact details in Gnome. Not to mention KDE applications… So it is not very useful that one either.

Comment by Daniel Aleksandersen at 2007-06-25 @889.

Hi,

Scrolling my Google Reader I saw your post and then this post.

Just thought I would to let you know.

Comment by Guy Snir (Subscribed) at 2007-06-26 @458.

Seems like someone at Google has read this post
Or not, but still take a look at http://desktop.google.com/linux/ still in beta, but which google app isn't?