DOWNLOAD THIS PROGRAM NOW!
This is not a suggestion, this is me telling you that you need to download this file now! I just downloaded Google Desktop about twenty minutes ago, and I think it is the greatest thing in the world. I downloaded it, walked away from the computer to get some work done, and when I came back my computer had taken a step to the next level. Google Desktop is EXACTLY what Microsoft has wanted to do for the past 5 years, but never perfected. Instead Microsoft decided to put it off until Longhorn comes around in 2006. Google Desktop categorizes your computer just like how it categorizes web pages. It searches through your files, sorts them out into keywords, stores the files according to date and relevancy, and places it all in an amazing interface just like its online companion. The page that Google presents for the program doesn't do it just. It says that it will sort through your AIM, Outlook, Internet History, Text, Word, Powerpoint, and Excel files. That is only the tip of the iceberg my friend.
Google quickly categorized 19,892 files on my computer within 20 minutes. By the way, it only searches for new items when the computer is idle, so that it won't take up your precious system resources. The result of the system scan looked like this. Pardon the messed up formatting.
Number of items Time of newest item
Total searchable items 19,892 --2:22am
Emails 0 ---
Chats 2 --1:52am
Web history 851 --1:30am
Files 19,039 --2:22am
Then Google seamlessly integrated the search function right into their web page. So that when you use your web browser (it better be Firefox!) you have a "Desktop" tab to search your computer.
When you are reading an AIM conversation, it even gives you a link to "chat with [whomever]", and the link will start aim and bring up an IM to send to the designated person.
I couldn't possible imagine a program more essential for just about any computer user. Whether you are a business person, who needs to keep track of records scattered all over your computer. Or if you're a teenage chatter who wants to check what Jessica said last week about Danny on AIM. There are a million reasons to use Google Desktop, but the one thing that makes me secure about using this program is that it is made by Google. The people who changed the face of search engines, email, blogging, and many other things. And this is going to be the next big thing.
