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Editor's Blog: Google Rules Susie's World
Posted 05/03/2007 at 12:00:00am | by Susie Ochs

 

 

Searching...everything.

 

Google Desktop is new on Macs, having been around on the Windows side for a while. It's kind of like the Finder on steroids, searching not just your computer's files and folders, but your Gmail messages, your Web-browing history, the text of documents, your media, aaaaaand the whole darn Internet while it's at it. And it works pretty much exactly like the web-based Google Search you've used for years.

 

You can download it here, and opt to have it live in your menubar, on your Desktop, or in your Dock. Clicking the menubar icon lets you access the Quick Search box (the floating black window in the screenshot) or the full page, which launches in your default Web browser.

 

 

 

You can specify in the Preferences where it should search.

 

 

Google Desktop can search more than just the files on your machine.

 

The results are speedy and incredibly easy to navigate, like anything Google does. (I'm so shameless.) Seriously, though, it's kind of creepy how well this thing seems to know me. But it's quick and accurate and the interface couldn't be easier. I'm hooked.

 

Results from the Quick Search pop-up.

 


And the results from the full browser-based search.

 

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avatarThanks

Submitted by Frank (not verified) on Thu, 2007-05-03 21:13

Thanks for the tip on iChat. I will disagree with the labels though. That is the one feature that pretty much annoys me. I want to be able to use folders so that I can create subfolders. With labels I have so many labels that it takes forever to sift through them. With google search built into my email why do I need labels to tag the messages further?

Frank

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avatarWhat a dork you are Susie!

Submitted by Tony (not verified) on Fri, 2007-05-04 00:58

What a dork you are Susie! Meant in the most endearing way though ;)

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avatari know, i know...

Submitted by Susie Ochs on Fri, 2007-05-04 12:55

did my brother send you? he's been telling me that for decades...

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Submitted by Quigleybc (not verified) on Sun, 2007-05-06 21:26

You read my mind Susie

I've just recently begun checking out all the sweet free google software.

Notebook is where it's at. So useful.

And Docs and Spreadsheets is amazing just because it can replace office for me.

Not too big on the google desktop, the paranoid guy in me starts imagining a google employee somewhere checkin out my files....

google earth is amazing. Google is the goods.

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I got different results from the Web page than I did from the phone, and the Web results were better.

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