More on Google Desktop Search Plus

Yesterday I blogged about Google Desktop Search Plus. I've just reindexed and it works great. Make sure you read the readme that comes with it for how to install it.

For what it's worth, here is the section I have added to the bottom of GDSPlus.conf. The best part is now I can find any file by doing "filetype:wav" or any other extension I'm looking for. And don't forget, entering someting like "disneyland filetype:psd" will find all your files with Disneyland in the title and psd in the extension.

The last section is experimental. It is meant to index anyfile without an extension as a text file. Use at your own risk. Could be helpful but use at your own risk.

# My Additions
AddNewExtension "bat", "0"
AddNewExtension "rtf", "2"
AddNewExtension "wri", "2"
AddNewExtension "wk4", "3"
AddNewExtension "psd", "5"
AddNewExtension "png", "8"
AddNewExtension "wav", "12"
AddNewExtension "rar", "18"

#Index files without an extension as text
AddNewExtension "", "0"

This entry was posted on Sunday, October 31, 2004 at 9:39 AM.  
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4 Comments:

  • Scott, by adding the other filetypes, how did you determine the ID number for them? Or did you just make those up?

    Also, I gather this does not index the contents of those filetypes -- correct? It just indexes the filename only.

    By WebStractions, at 11:15 AM  

  • The numbers beside the extensions refer to the parser type that google uses. If the number is 0, it will use a simple text parser, otherwise, it will use the specified parser for the file extension.

    The file types that you add will be indexed as filenames and also content. More, the files will also be cached. They will be treated exactly the same as other file types that google defaults with.

    By Anonymous, at 11:52 AM  

  • yeah...what anonymous said :) A "0" is treated like a text file and will index it as such. The others I chose similar to other file types. For example, PNG is like a GIF so I chose that parser. Similar, RTF like a DOC file. Will it work? I don't know but I thought I'd give it a try.

    By Scott, at 9:07 PM  

  • I work at a start-up producing a software application for organizing content on your desktop that is integrated with Google Desktop Search. The company is called Viapoint (www.viapoint.com). Since you had been testing GDS Plus I thought you might be interested in it. We haven't released the product yet and are looking for people interested in beta testing it. If you are interested I can email you the information on the beta.

    Cheers!

    dhousman@viapoint.com

    By Dan Housman, at 6:08 AM  

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