Google Desktop for Linux

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Google recently released a Linux version of Google Desktop. This is really good news, hopefully other companies will follow. What is even better is the fact that there is a Ubuntu repository for all this. Unfortunately no amd64 binaries here.

Quite a few people seem to have privacy concerns. Providing the source code for the application would definitely alleviate most of the concerns, but I am afraid this will not happen to soon. Or maybe it will?

Reading all these posts and comments I realized that there are many open source desktop search engines, I knew only a couple of them:

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