Friday 10/15 - Google Desktop

Have you used Google for searching the web? It's probaly the best knowm and most often used search engine on the web. Out of millions of web pages, your search words can find the pages that you are looking for.

But how come you can't search your PC as quickly? The short answer is that Microsoft never developed really good search technologies inside Windows.

But Google has fixed that. Go to http://desktop.google.com and download their new desktop search tool.



After you install the software, Desktop Google will index most documents on your hard drive (for example, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook emails) and create an index.

The next time you do a Google search, a new link appears which will show results from your hard drive. And it is fast.

Don't worry, the results are not shared with other users or added to Google's web directory.