Google Desktop

Google Desktop by Google, Inc.

  • Editor's Rating: 4 stars
  • User Rating: 1 (3)
  • Price:Free

desktop search tool Google Desktop brings the power of Google`s search capabilities to your local computer. The program runs on your PC and maintains an index of your files, documents and even email messages - it supports Outlook, Outlook Express, MS Word, Excel, as well as text files and web surfing history. You can customize the indexing and choose which items to include, and also exclude specific documents or paths. To start searching, you just type your keyword in the browser based interface (runs locally, not on the web), and it returns lightning fast results of all items that match your search. Clicking on any of the search results, will open the file with the default application, or in case of email provide you with a text overview and reply options. The Google Desktop interface is similar to the online Google search, and can optionally be integrated with online search results.

Product Details

Publisher Google, Inc. (7) Popularity 22
Price Free O/S XP/Vista/7
Version 5.9.1005.12335 ...history Requirements None
Last updated May 26, 2010 File Size 1967 Kb

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Consumes a lot of PC resources 2 stars by Darwishnov
Google Desktop is not good. It seems to be brilliant in the 1st look. But it consumes a lot of PC resources ( RAM monster, HD burner [HD is working all the time the PC is working, online and offline, foreground , background, ...]) It requires a huge server capabilities to run smoothly. It should be assisting application, not the main application the PC is busy for. It is one of the absolutely non green applications. It consumes a lot of power! I wish Google team to enhance it or change it completely. showShow review details
Googled out 1 stars by gimpguy (Read all my 654 reviews)
As with a few other Google apps, this one remains a royal, "pain" that is. Should be called Google Slowdown. Put on a pot of Jo, watch the kids grow, it'll be a while. It seems to index constantly, I would assume it can't find what it's looking for by the 2nd hour of running my hard drive into a coma. Either way, I'll stick with the likes of Agent Ransack or others that are there when I need them, not because they feel like taking my hard drive out for a SPIN. Resources? Where did they go? Oh, Google Desktop was hungry obviously. No thank you. showShow review details
Slow and resource-hungry application 1 stars by StellarSeven (Read all my 3 reviews)
Google Desktop took more than 30 minutes to index my 80Gb hard drive, even longer when I set it in background indexing mode. It also slows your computer's processing speed when new files need to be indexed as well. Finally, when I uninstalled it, it corrupted my Office 2003 installation and accidentally deleted some of my documents when I choose to delete the saved index cache. My advice, backup first before uninstalling. showShow review details
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