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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. Is Microsoft out of the loop? by tabkey12 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Who wants WinFS in 2 or 3 years when you can have Google Desktop Search now, for free?

    Also, good to see Google isn't doing an eternal beta on this product like its Google News offering (the whole beta thing gets annoying after 2 continuous years!)

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  2. Still requires admin rights to use by Kagami001 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Google Desktop Search can only be used when the account from which it was installed is logged in."

    Yep, that lovely message is still there when I try to use it in my main work account.
    Oh, well. Maybe next time.

  3. Re:Why? Whats it for? Whats it do by lelitsch · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Find every occurence of a name in 400MB worth of email in less than a second. Something that crashes Eudora and takes forever in Outlook.