Searching your computer with the Google Desktop application
Google has brought its fast, easy Web search technology to the files on your computer.
The new desktop search application indexes e-mail, instant messages, Word documents, Powerpoint presentations and more while your computer is idle. Then you search the index with a simple term just like you search the Web. Google Desktop also keeps track of every Web page you visit.
Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Watch, says it's a good tool despite some privacy issues.
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