Google Desktop Search vs. Windows Indexing Service

From: Bruce (Bruce_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/15/04 

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:33:02 -0700

Should Windows Indexing Service be turned off if you are using the new Google
Desktop Search? Won't that improve XP performance if indexing is off? How
much would performance be improved? With Windows XP Indexing Service on, does
it always impact performance in all applications, or only when searching the
hard drive? The Google Desktop only indexes certain types of files. Does that
mean it ignores all others making it a rather specialized tool and that
Windows Indexing Service should be left on for now?

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Question about indexing service
    ... Indexing service is rather old, slow, and feeble. ... Try one of the new desktop search programs, ... google desktop search and yahoo desktop search are free, ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Google Desktop Search vs. Windows Indexing Service
    ... The indexing service will run from time to time. ... > Desktop Search? ... The Google Desktop only indexes certain types of files. ... > Windows Indexing Service should be left on for now? ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Search and Asp.Net
    ... The easiest way is to rely on the robots like Google to do their work. ... Microsoft indexing service should be properly configured on your machine ... Then you can query the catalog using normal ADO.NET objects: ... PDF files for download. ...
    (microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet)
  • IXSF Search is an ASP / VBScript sample of using Indexing Service
    ... IXSF is a web based interface for Windows Indexing Service / Microsoft ... catalogs it becomes a nice tool for searching your source files tree ...
    (microsoft.public.inetserver.indexserver)
  • Intranet Search made easy with IXSF
    ... IXSF is a web facade for Windows Indexing Service which is powerful ...
    (microsoft.public.inetserver.indexserver)
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