Google Desktop Search – Download Toolbar, Features and more...
By twentyfive
A review of the latest google desktop with its
amazing desktop search features and cool gadgets to experience a
marvelous way of searching your files the google way and syncing to your social networks and emails without
launching a full web browser. How cool is that!
Search your own computer the google way
So you use Google when you’re searching the internet and the world wide web a.k.a. www because no other search engine could filter search results that quick and simple. Do you wanna sync in to your social networks and emails without opening them? What about using google desktop to search over your own computer files, photos, emails, chats and music that fast and simple, too? Stop thinking it’s not possible because it is :)
Google is one of the most brilliant inventions for sure. Searching the web has never been that easy and simple with any other search engines except google. What I love about it is its simplicity and straight to the point of relevance. Who doesn’t love google? I mean I even ‘liked’ the “I probably learned more from google than I have from school” in facebook. LOL Ok, back to google desktop search…Google desktop is gorgeous. Perfect for me who loves neat and simple things. Less is more as they say. I hate seeing messy and cluttered things. Look at my desktop below…see I don’t like unorganized things. I want my files all in order and I put all unnecessary things in the trash. It’s not an obsessive-compulsive thing hey, I just want all things easy to sort and easy to find. Neatness and easy access I want my desktop as simple as that.
Don’t mind my wallpaper ok. Haha Ok as you see up there my computer screen, the google desktop quick search box appears in the center after I pressed CTRL key twice (ok that’s just the shortcut for the search box). The toolbar will also appear when you click the google desktop icon of course. Once I want to search something let’s say a file I created months ago that I forgot the exact title, I’ll just type a word in that search box as if I’m searching something in the internet using google search engine platform. All relevant search results then appear in a second at my fingertips. How cool is that! :)
Back in the days when I used to lose my temper searching for a file using windows, meh how lame. Thank goodness there’s now google desktop. It’s really an awesome shortcut to everything. Not only files or photos or music stored in your computer but also a shortcut to your emails, chats, Gmail, weather, rss feeds, web pages you have visited and lots more.
Another cool feature of using google desktop is that you can access files you accidentally deleted without having to create them from the start. How amazing is that! So literally, you can google everything. Yay!
The screenshot above shows I am searching for my hubpages files in my computer. A link of Hubpages browser also appears along with all my hubpages files in my computer. How fantastic! :)
Google desktop features
Google desktop has the amazing smart indexing desktop features that will allow you to search the full text over Word, Excel, Powerpoint, pdf files, internet explorer, firefox / Mozilla / netscape, msn instant messenger, AOL instant messenger, google talk, Gmail, music files, photo files, videos, and other lots of plugins. Google desktop works for windows, linux and mac. This amazing desktop search software can also be integrated with firefox.
Google desktop download
If you are impressed, you can download the latest google desktop software for free. Just choose your type of system first and then install it in seconds.
Google desktop for windows
For windows, simple download it from here.
Google desktop mac
If you’re fascinated by this latest software from google and you use a mac computer, you can download your pretty google desktop for mac for free. Just to this link and you can install the software in seconds and enjoy its techy features along with your classy macintosh. By the way moi techy friend, it requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and higher for this latest application.
Google desktop linux
If you’re using Linux and wants google desktop on your linux system, you can have it for free as well. It requires glibc 2.3.2+, gtk+ 2.2.0+ and supports 64 bit linux. Install it in seconds and you can enjoy the searching the web and the net the google way in your main desktop. Enjoy!
Google desktop search
With the google quick search box, you can either search your desktop or the whole web at the same time. It’s like a shortcut web browser and desktop browser. You can either launch an application or program without even going to surf the start menu or launch any website without going to your main web browser. For example, you can go to Microsoft Word by just typing “wor” in the google desktop quick search box or you can go to Facebook by just typing “face.” Like I said, it’s literally browsing the google way. :)
Google desktop gadgets
Another exciting treats of google desktop features a bunch of amazing gadgets you can display in your sidebar or just hide them and use them whenever you want. My most used desktop gadgets are the facebook gadget, tabbed to-do list, online dictionary and wifi and wireless signal meter.
With the facebook gadget, I can see my facebook notification and updates without even logging in to facebook. With this google desktop gadget, you can be updated to your facebook activities and be aware of new updates like I said without even launching the full facebook web browser. By the way, if you love using twitter, google desktop has a gadget for that, too.
The tabbed to-do list gadget anywayz is another cool desktop gadget I love. It’s like a simple notepad however more useful because I can list my to-do-things for a given day or time or date. It’s a shortcut version of the google calendar. With this tool, in one click, my tasks for the day and all reminders will pop in. Very cool and time saving!
I give thumbs up with the online dictionary gadget, too. With it you can type a word or phrase and look up its meaning without opening your web browser.
The wifi and wireless signal meter is very useful obviously for being aware if your internet connection signal is powerful in any area. Very cool for sensing wifi signal. So these are just few from the lots of google desktop gadgets in the house. Those are my most used tools using this amazing software from google. There are more gadgets available for any computer savvy out there and these are all free. All you gotta do is to download them compatible with your operating system. I just hope there could be Hubpages gadget soon. :) Like a hubpages update or notification, something like that. It would be totally awesome!
Google desktop calendar
The google desktop calendar is one of the most in-demand gadgets by users who love this software. There is no faster and easier way to access your calendar than having amongst your gadgets or in the sidebar. You can add this gadget for free of course and be updated and never miss an appointment ever.
Google desktop outlook
Google desktop allows you to in synced not only with your gmail. The outlook gadget is rolling among the top.
Google desktop sync
With this cool feature from google, you can sync in your calendar and outlook hand in hand together. Once set up, google calendar sync will work automatically.
Ok me done in here. It’s a wrap. Thanks for reading this google desktop review. Google is unstoppable in developing and improving innovative software in the techy world. Let’s enjoy and be pampered with its amazing discoveries now and in the future. By the way, you can download the amazing google desktop software from google by simply going to http://desktop.google.com/. It’s available to Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
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Comments
Blaise. this is a very useful set of gadgets here. I love that your desktop is so streamlined. A while back - you should have seen my screen, there were 42 icons on it. Heh! Murder!! That's with two women here using and sharing the same PC. LOL! I can definitely see the appeal there. I use a thing called "DragTargets", and it puts everything away for me, and puts them under one very easy little on-screen App. Nice and tidy.
I love that you can search everything under the Google Search App. I find MS Windows cannot always find things on my Hard drives. (Have 4 of the critters.) I agree with the sentiments here. Google are on a winner for centralising everything so it can all be done from just a few places or one place. Clutter is the enemy. This is great! Rating up this Hub! Cheers! XO
Lets see if can make cofee,lol,I'll check it out;)
Hi Quill! Thanks a bunch :) I am not comfy with too much icons and all..Google desktop requires mac OS X 10.5 leopard.. God bless you too.
Hello Cheeky! :) haha yeah I love the clean look. Too much icons and shortcuts kinda stress me out LOL so as much as possible, I throw away everything I don't use and keep all files with their class and types. Whoa, you need a desktop makeover or laptop makeover perhaps hehe DragTargets sounds nice and helpful also.
Yep the new google desktop quick search is really a bestfriend of someone like me who loves quick and easy access of everything. Hell yeah searching through old windows is freaking lame. Without google all things would suck. Seriously I agree with that hehe Thanks for the rates. Cheers! XX
LOL it'd be totally awesome to give free coffee Prof. A :) Thank you
Hi, 25 - Google Desktop and its various gadgets are really cool - and so is this hub. Thanks.
Yeah google's stunning innovations always impress us and this google desktop features makes everything just so easy. Thanks for stopping over here :)
A very great desktop search function from Google. I think many people who are wanting to become more organized picking this up. Hub up.:)
Yep keeping away from a messy desktop feels so good LOL Its desktop search function is so amazing not only for organized people but for lame and lazy people too LOL Thanks for the rate up ;)
Your desktop is nice and streamlined, blaise. We should get that for our windows pc. I think Drag target is a drag. Lol. (Kidding.) Tc blaise. :D x
Yup my vampires have that protocol LMAO My google desktop has been working so cool so far. Seems I'm enjoying googling lately LOL You're so funny :p XO
Its something that only google can offer. Great tool. Really loved using it.
I love the new google desktop, too. Really useful and helpful.
"Quill" 19 months ago
Well written and filled with information for PC. I run a Mac with many different options but I do like the clean look on a desktop.
Blessings