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Google Adds Features and Plugin to Desktop Search

Posted by timothy on from the those-guys-are-everywhere dept.

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.

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  1. Great! by B3ryllium · · Score: 4, Funny

    Great! Now if only IE and Windows were out of beta, we'd be set.

    1. Re:Great! by jd · · Score: 3, Funny

      How are they going to get to beta, if their Alpha line has been dropped?

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  2. Re:Controversial Toolbar? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Beta versions so far have featured a prominent image of Janet Jackson's bared breast as an interface element

  3. Martini Recipe Please by UCFFool · · Score: 3, Funny

    The GoogleBar better be able to search for a few good mixed drink recipes, otherwise this is the worst bar yet!
    I was already disappointed with the ToolBar that did not have any 18v cordless versions.

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    1. Re:Martini Recipe Please by stratjakt · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Tool Bar" sounds like a gay nightclub.

      So does Google Bar.

      So does Chocolate Bar, come to think of it.

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  4. I believe by chachob · · Score: 5, Funny
    Google Desktop now supports alternative Netscape based browsers like Firefox
    You mean Firefox-based browsers like Netscape, right? (I know, I know)
  5. Built in spellcheck. by PxM · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Google Toolbar now has a spell check built it. Now if it only had a feature that would electricute the user everytime he wrote something in 1337.

    1. Re:Built in spellcheck. by Liselle · · Score: 5, Funny
      The Google Toolbar now has a spell check built it. Now if it only had a feature that would electricute the user everytime he wrote something in 1337.
      What would it do to people who mis-spell words like "electrocute"? Maybe stahb them with a nife, or chute them with a gunn?
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  6. The real news here by jals · · Score: 5, Funny

    People seem to be overlooking the real news contained in this story: a Google product actually out of beta. Surely a first?

  7. Re:Controversial Toolbar? by david.given · · Score: 5, Funny
    Beta versions so far have featured a prominent image of Janet Jackson's bared breast as an interface element

    No, they want to attract users.

  8. Re:So is there a catch ? by op12 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why not google it?

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22google+des ktop+search%22+%22the+catch%22&btnG=Google+Search

  9. oh no! by SweetAndSourJesus · · Score: 2, Funny

    They've discovered our super-secret technique for extending Firefox!

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  10. Re:You want to know what the catch is? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ding ding ding! We have a loser!