Google Takes on Your Desktop

Google Desktop does something so profound it may change the way you think about your PC forever: It can search any Web page you've ever seen, any e-mail message you've opened and the transcript of any instant-message chat you've had. Why is this such a life-changing feature? Because using a computer these days means being bombarded with far too much information to remember. Google Desktop effectively becomes a sort of aircraft black box for your PC - a photographic memory, as Google puts it. The program can recall any bit of text that ever passed in front of your eyeballs, in a fraction of a second. You don't even have to remember where you read something (e-mail, Web, instant message, document); you have to remember only what it was about. This feature, as they say in Silicon Valley, is huge.

The point of all this is to make your computer searchable with the ease, speed, and familiar interface you've come to expect of Google. The Google Desktop has its own home page on your computer, whether you're online or not. Type in a search query just like you would at Google proper and click the Search Desktop button to search your personal index. Or, click Search the Web to send your query out to Google.

Trust me, give a try, it's much better than Microsoft's MSN. You know... "Microsoft"!

You can download it from Google Desktop Search.