Google Desktop Features

Google Desktop gives you the ability to search your computer for information stored there such as e-mail, Web pages you have visited, chats, and other files such as music, video, and word processing documents. Searching your desktop is just as simple as using Google to search the Web. Your search results appear using the same interface used to display Google Web search results. Google’s search technology employs a flexible, quick, and accurate indexing system that allows you to find your files wherever they exist on your computer.

You can customize your Desktop search results so that future searches provide more of what you’re looking for and fewer of the files you aren’t interested in seeing appear in your search results. By deleting files from your search results, the next time you do a similar search you won’t see them. Erasing files from the search results only erases them from the Google index. The actual file is not erased.

Adding small programs known as Gadgets and Plug-ins to Google Desktop can be fun, not only because of the games you can play, but many of them can provide important information and services. The number of Gadgets and Plug-ins grows almost every day.

With the interaction of Google Desktop with Gadgets and Plug-ins, Google Desktop can personalize the content for your Google home page. Depending on the Gadgets and/or Plug-ins you install, Google recommends new Gadgets and shows you content based on the topics on which you normally search.