UnixPoet

This is the new home of AccessCrawler: a free tool to index mdb files so you that you can search the content via the excellent tool that is Google Desktop Search.

AccessCrawler is easy to use: just download, run the setup and that’s it! Google Desktop and AccessCrawler work together to index all the mdb files that you configure Google Desktop to index.

A couple of notes: indexing databases is very resource intensive so AccessCrawler only indexes the first 1,000 records of each database. And no, AccessCrawler has no spyware/adware/viruses. I provide it free simply because I believe it is a useful tool that fills in a needed feature for what is otherwise an excellent desktop search tool.

I do not think that Google has an Office in mind. At all.

First off, Writely, even a souped up version full of Google steriods, will still remain the Wordpad to the Visual Studio that is Office. Google is not dumb enough to do a full frontal on Microsoft Office - the way to beat Office is to make it irrelevant. And Writely does not really even to begin to do that.

What Google above all is an advertising company selling targeted ads. It needs to know its users in detail - the more it knows the better. And what better way to learn about someone then looking at their email, the IM, the news they are interested, the blogs they read, and the documents they write?

Google will offer Writely and GDrive so that it has more info to analyse about the users; the aim is to not to kill Office - that’s just a nice bonus. Google does not care if you use Office Word - but it does care that you keep it on GDrive.

Indeed, in the grander scheme of things, the more important announcement from Google is not Writely but GDrive.

Is it a wonder that the latest Google Desktop (which is great btw) saves documents on Google servers? Indeed it fits in nicely with my hypothesis