Google Desktop

Google Desktop gives you easy access to information on your PC and from the web. It's a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, music, photos, chats and web pages that you've viewed.

By making your computer searchable, Google Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails and bookmarks. It makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google.

Google Desktop doesn't just help you search your computer; it also helps you gather new information from the web with Sidebar, a new desktop feature that shows you your new email, weather and stock information, personalized news and RSS/Atom feeds, and more. Sidebar is personalized automatically, without any manual configuration required (though you can certainly make your own customizations if you want to).

Development on Google Desktop has been halted and thus discontinued.

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Google Desktop gives you easy access to information on your PC and from the web. It's a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, music, photos, chats and web pages that you've viewed.

Google Desktop 5.9.1005.12335 is licensed as Freeware for the Windows operating system / platform without restrictions. Google Desktop is available to all software users as a free download (Freeware).

Google Desktop Virus and Malware Tests:

For security reasons, you should also check out the Google Desktop virus and malware test that has been uploaded; additional Google Desktop screenshots may be available, too.