FROM THE PUBLISHER OF GOOGLE DEKTOP
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, email, and any web pages you have viewed, giving you more time to do what you want.
You Can :
- Get all your personalized info in one place with Sidebar
- Launch applications and search instantly with Quick Find
- Find all your email, files, photos, web history, Gmail, and more
- Search conveniently in Outlook with the Outlook Toolbar
- Developers can write plug-ins for the sidebar
Google Gadgets
Want a clock on your computer desktop? How about a calendar, a WiFi indicator, a TV, or anything else you can dream up? Say hello to Google Gadgets. These interactive mini-applications can be anything from games to search tools to media players, and they can be any shape and size – use a weather globe to show you the latest forecast. We’ve got a lot of ready-made gadgets you can add to your desktop, but they’re also so easy to create that you can probably figure out how to build your own.
You can also save your gadget content and settings online to protect your info from computer crashes and be able to access it from your other computers by logging into your Google Account with Google Desktop. For instance, you can now ’synch’ the To Do list on both your laptop and your desktop.
Richer Google integration
Google Desktop is more fully with the rest of Google. For instance, you can now add some Google Gadgets from your personalized homepage into your Sidebar, or anywhere else on your desktop You can also view upcoming birthdays
with the Orkut gadget, see what’s popular on Google Videos, or access your Google Calendar from your desktop.
Personalize your desktop
Google Desktop will recommend new gadgets and can also automatically create a personalized Google homepage for you based on the subjects you’re most interested in. For instance, if you’re constantly doing searches on new movies, Google Desktop can automatically recommend a movies gadget to add to your desktop.
