Google Desktop 2… sucks.

I know, Google can do no wrong. But apparently it is also possible that they can suck too. Google Desktop version 2 (beta) has underwhelmed me. Here’s why:

• Gmail indexing is still going. 48 hours later. Ouch. Why not just integrated with gmail’s search and be done with it?
• All the panels (Weather, stocks, Web clips, News, etc) don’t integrate with my personalized home page.
• Outlook integration is still borked: when emails are moved, the index isn’t aware of the change, and so opening an email that has been moved (archived) results in a sucky “email cannot be found” message.

Still, it isn’t horrible, since I can disable the panels I don’t like and add in new ones. But it isn’t the most consumer friendly tool just yet. Too bad.