10/14/2004
Google moves to the desktop
While Google board member and investor John Doerr recently said the Google Browser was not going to happen, the search giant surprised the net once again today by releasing the beta version of the Google Desktop Search. This handy tool keeps an index of local files that can then be searched via the normal Google front end in the web browser. As soon as it is installed, Google offers another tab, called ‘Desktop’, which will display results from local files. Also, these results will be integrated with regular web search results. With this application Google has proved how well they can integrate a local search with their existing services. This is very well done, and an aggressive push into Microsofts territory - the users desktop.
An extensive review can be found here
October 15th, 2004 at 12:30 am
The cached aspect sold it for me. And it’s really, really fast which makes it even more desirable. Finally! I can find that obscure passage that I remember verbatim but, for the life of me, I just don’t remember what the damn filename was!
October 15th, 2004 at 12:38 am
Google Desktop
And all of the functions of Google search are available–including the ability to search cached files. This makes for locating a certain sentence, say, in some file you can’t possibly remember the name of. Instead of having to find the file first (sa…