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Google Desktop 3

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Publisher's description of Google Desktop 3

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Instantly find your e-mail, files, media, Web history, and chats. By making your computer searchable, Google Desktop Search puts your information easily within your reach. It frees you from having to manually organize your files, e-mail, and Web pages you've viewed. Version 3 lets you search for files across all your computers and share info with friends directly from the Sidebar.

Share photos and videos directly to the desktop.

Editor's review of Google Desktop 3

  • 4.0 stars

  • "Google your desktop"
  • Version reviewed: Google Desktop 3

Simple, small, and free, Google Desktop indexes your hard drive the way the company's own servers index the World Wide Web. Your search results are returned in a Web-page format that looks very similar to the Google Web site. This application offers some excellent features and searches the most important documents and locations, including local Microsoft Office files, PDFs, archived files, e-mail messages, chat transcripts, and the Web browser cache. You also can download or develop plug-ins for searching other types of documents and customizing the display of search results. Like other local-search products, the Google Desktop installs an indexing engine on your computer that runs whenever your PC is idle. Once the index is built, search results return blazingly quick.

Version 3 adds the ability to save indexes from multiple machines centrally so that you can run remote desktop searches across all your PCs. Also, you can now drag the Sidebar around the screen and share panel items directly with friends. The Web-based interface will be second nature to Google regulars, but we're not yet convinced it's the best way to scan local search results. Other programs with lighter feature sets offer quicker and easier indexing and searching. Nevertheless, the efficient and feature-rich Google Desktop Search stands as yet another feather in the company's cap.

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