The Google Desktop is essentially your very own personal search tool for your computer. As today’s modern drives are getting bigger and bigger, finding the information you need can seem to take a lifetime. That is why the Google Desktop goes well beyond the standard search module included Windows. The Google Desktop will index your hard drive in the same manner that Google indexes the Web. This will allow your search results to be retrieved and then displayed in a Web page format.
When you perform a Desktop search, the most relevant results will appear at the top of the page. The results will not only display the file name(s), but also a brief description and your search terms highlighted as well. In case you accidentally delete a file or item, Google Desktop creates cached copies (snapshots) of your files and other items each time you view them. Therefore, you can often use the Google Desktop to find and recover them, instead of having to recreate them from scratch.
Google Desktop - Highlights

Google Desktop Provides You With Information When You Want It - Right On Your Desktop!
- Search Your Computer As Easily As You Search The Web With Google.
- View News, Photos And More Anywhere On Your Desktop.
- Get All Your Personalized Info In One Place With Sidebar.
- Find All Your Email, Files, Web History, And More.
- Get News, Weather And More Anywhere On Your Desktop
- Add Google Gadgets To Customize Your Desktop And Sidebar.
- Developers Can Create And Share Their Own Gadgets.
You Can Download Google Desktop For Free: Get Google Desktop
Top Reasons To Wipe Away Your Internet History
- Information about all the web sites you have visited is stored on your computer!
- Every image you have ever viewed, sent or received over the Internet is stored on your system!
- There is a record of every program that you have ever downloaded or used on your hard drive!
- Pressing the delete button and emptying the recycle bin does NOT completely delete your files!
- Cleaning your History Files improves the speed of your computer and frees valuable disk space!


