"You can develop a product similar to web search to help us find information in your computer," Google Asia Products and Strategy Senior Manager "said that when Google receives more and more similar recommendations," PC " There is also a situation similar to the Internet information explosion, thereby developing a desktop search tool to improve the Google user experience, which is related to Google's status in the search area. "
Based on the above understanding, Google launched a desktop search in October 2004. March 2005 Google released the English official version of the desktop search and Chinese, Korean test version, and the group said that Chinese official version will continue the Google style. You must have a formal version after several beta versions. In addition to the Chinese version, the version of Japanese and other texts will also be launched.
Product Design Content
"Users don't need to deliberately remember that the information from the Internet is still PC, as long as the simple search on the integration interface can detect the information that has been exposed, this is the development idea of Google Desktop Search Tools." The group said that Google mainly considers the following factors when designing desktop search tools:
First, you must ensure that desktop search and web search experience are the same. Because Google and other web search tools have been used frequently, the desktop search tool should be used along the web search, such as a unified interface, and so on. In addition, such tools should not be started separately, just need to see the results of web pages and desktop search by search bar. Through this tool, users can not only search for information on the web, but also searched for any previously touched, including, documents, emails, documents, e-mail, browsing websites, product introduction, etc.
Second, different from the web search, overlay is the key to desktop search. The group considers that the keyword and content of the keyword and the content is most important in web search, and desktop search is more critical to different types of files. "Computer information and Internet information have a big difference, because personal users use computers more is to play games, chat, email, browse information, write relatively small, so when doing index results feedback, is it supported Various types of files look for key factors.
In addition to the above factors, the correlation between content and keywords, the speed of finding, the size of the package, etc. are also the factors considered by Google Desktop Search Tools.
English official version improvement
According to the group, the English official version of this release has improved in terms of words in terms of the test version half a year ago. "It is mainly based on the premise of ensuring quality, and there is a function increase .
It is understood that the increase in the official version of Google mainly includes: joining the support of the PDF file, join the support for the Firefox browser, adds the user's selectivity, that is, the user can choose the privacy document, password protection document index.
In addition, Google Desktop Search The most important feature of the official version is increasing, the support for multimedia files includes video compressed files in various formats, including MP3, MPEG. The group is indicated that the file name is difficult to summarize all contents because the content of such files is difficult to summarize, so you need to search for the file's underlying information, including the description, file header information, etc. For example, on the file header of the MP3 file, there are some data on the MP3 file, some video files, game TV shows, will packed the subtitle file to the video file, etc., then make indexes with keywords or keyword combination.
The difference between Chinese and English version
"Google Desktop Search Chinese Edition is not only English version of the Chinese version" 宓 宓 In introducing Google Desktop Search Tools Chinese Edition means "Due to differences in language habits, the difference between the two is very significant of".
宓 宓 表示, "On the one hand, the language of Asia has a big difference, such as Chinese, Korean, Japanese words, unlike the words between words, such as the words of words, etc. High. On the other hand, the dial is still the main Internet of the Asian Internet users, so the size of the software has a large impact on the user. Google must consider the function, quality and size balance, and will not be more accurate, will be more Big dictionary packets in the software ". In addition to the special considerations of the word, software size, the interface, domestic users use more entertainment in computer operation, download function applications have become the factors that Google Desktop Search Chinese Version, in addition, Google Desktop Search Chinese Version Multi-language mixedo problem, the group said in this respect, Google uses the company's experience in web search.
It is understood that after the Google Desktop Search After the official version of English, I emphasized that it has added support for IM software. The author noted that the Chinese beta did not join the support of QQ, MSN and other domestic IM support, indicating this group At present, the Chinese version is the same, that is, only IM IM is supported, and we will continue to collect user feedback for QQ and MSN's domestic share, we will continue to collect user feedback and reflect in the later version. "宓 宓, except for QQ, MSN, Google has noticed that there are some very good localization software in China, and Google provides a variety of interfaces to develop various plug-ins for the development of engineers. Google will provide More users download.
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