Highly recommend Everything instead. It's so freaking fast, can search by keywords, can sort by time change to see what files are being touched in real time, can search any "cloud" file if you have them locally ... And no ads!

https://www.voidtools.com/downloads/

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gregschlom 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

I'm a big fan of Everything (and recently donated to the developer). I tried this Google app and was pleased to see that it seems just as fast as Everything for local file search. Presumably they use the same underlying mechanism for searching files (something about hooking into the NTFS index). I might give it a shot.

(disclaimer: I work at Google, but nothing related to this app)

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linhns 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Stick this with Powertoys Run or Command Palette then your windows can become pretty powerful.

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jajuuka 5 days ago | parent [-]

Was gonna say I use Command Palette for this same thing and it's so damn good. It's free, well integrated to Windows and just amazing. Reminds me of Alfred on macOS.

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linhns 4 days ago | parent [-]

Yeah, and they could have done this many moons ago, not waiting until now.

	▲	jajuuka 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Of course but we can't change the past. Just glad Microsoft shifted their focus back to developers.

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Alifatisk 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I love Everything + Wox (www.wox.one), have been my default setup on all Windows installs

But Google App is more than a search bar for filesystem, it's like Perplexity

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9029 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I very much enjoy Everything whenever I use Windows. I wonder what's the equivalent for Linux, plocate?

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ripdog 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

AFAIK it's not really possible to implement Everything in Linux because Everything relies on reading the entire file list at once from the NTFS metadata, allowing it to index at incredible speed. On Linux, there are dozens of filesystems which likely make it impossible to achieve the same.

That said, I do wonder why Linux gone search is always so slow even on indexed files.

	▲	kasabali 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		> which likely make it impossible Huge exaggeration. It just needs to be ext4, and like 90% would be covered b you by that. For remaining 10%, (and only if you care), XFS and btrfs would be more than enough.

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tech234a 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

There's fsearch which has a similar UI but isn't as fast.

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BlueGh0st 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Can it search file tags?

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bitpush 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Does it have Gemini?