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Authored by: drmacnut on May 15, '07 01:50:08PM

…many improvements, such as the ability to activate GD by highlighting a word or phrase in any application and then using a contextual menu or hotkey to bring up GD to perform a search and return the results.

The same can be done with Spotlight. I can highlight a word or phrase in Safari, TextEdit, NisusWriter, or any other OS X native app, and using right-click/control-click, I get a contextual menu with the option to "Search in Spotlight". This brings up the standard Spotlight Search window, not the menu extra (blue Spotlight icon).

One of the weak points with Spotlight, however, is of course doing decent phrase searches. Perhaps GD does this better, but I never really found GD to be terribly useful, and rather found that its constant indexing to be a pain in the CPU. ;)

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Authored by: roncross@cox.net on May 15, '07 02:03:23PM

The other advantage that GD has over spotlight is that it indexes the web sites that you been to so you can return to them later.

I know a lot of people have been experiencing problem with GD indexing but most have been able to solve their problem by uninstalling and reinstalling the application. In addition, I am not sure if this problem is isolated to intel vs PPC chips.

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