Google Adds Features and Plugin to Desktop Search

Matthew Bischoff writes "Today Google added new features to its popular desktop software. Google Desktop now supports alternative Netscape based browsers like Firefox, PDFs, images, video, and music files. Google also added a plug-ins feature so that developers can integrate their software into the Google Desktop catalog. Another new addition is a supported way to search from Google's deskbar software. It's probably a matter of time until we see desktop search integrated into all of the Google products including the controversial Google Toolbar 3." Google Desktop is also officially now out of beta.

Comments

Re:Is Microsoft out of the loop?

[generic-man]

How exactly does "beta" mean "no ads"?

Please look at Google Images, a non-beta site that has no ads.

Google News is in perpetual beta because Google hasn't done jack shit to improve it in years. It has nothing to do with "fair use."

Re:Huh? Screw-ware

[saskboy]

Maybe Google's toolbar should be known as "Screw-ware".

It uploads your datamined hard drive's details to them so they can better screw you with their marketing department.

It's the software that you keep paying for, and don't even realize you're bending over.