: Google launches desktop search
Google recently announced Google Desktop Search (GDS), a beta desktop search application that enables users to search their email, files, web history, and chats as fast as they can search the web with Google.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to test drive it yet. The problem is when I tried to install on my PC, it asked me to uninstall a number of programs that conflicted with GDS. I had to reinstall the programs after I had completed installing GDS. This was one of those cases of "too much effort - not enough reward". So I gave up on GDS, for now anyway.
GDS is currently available for Windows XP and Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 and above. It requires a minimum of 128MB of RAM, and a 400MHz (or faster) Pentium processor is recommended. Google Desktop Search is available in English today, but there are plans to make it available in other languages.
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