Google Desktop for Windows 5.8.809.23506

3.0 out of 5 stars 3.0 (663 votes)

(October 6, 2008)

Windows 2000/Vista/XP / Freeware / 61,392 downloads

Google Desktop gives you easy access to information on your computer and from the web. It's a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, music, photos, chats and web pages that you've viewed. By making your computer searchable, Google Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails and bookmarks. It makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google.

Google Desktop doesn't just help you search your computer; it also helps you gather new information from the web with Sidebar, a new desktop feature that shows you your new email, weather and stock information, personalized news and RSS/Atom feeds, and more. Sidebar is personalized automatically, without any manual configuration required.

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  1. 1 out of 5 stars
    oomingmak

    Reviewing 5.8.809.23506 (Oct 7, 2008)

    As if I'd let Google anywhere near my data.

  2. 1 out of 5 stars
    laptopy.net

    Reviewing 5.8.809.23506 (Oct 7, 2008)

    no 64bit support

  3. 1 out of 5 stars
    BadIronTree

    Reviewing 5.8.809.23506 (Oct 7, 2008)

    no vista 64 support

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    horsecharles

    Reviewing 5.8.809.23506 (Oct 6, 2008)

    Ha..ha.... google hateboys out in force.

    Prefer vista deskbar because google is a resource hog.

    Rolling on the mofo floor laughing my mofo arse off.

  5. 1 out of 5 stars
    roj

    Reviewing 5.8.809.23506 (Oct 6, 2008)

    Buggy. Slow. Bloated with a search engine I don't want. Behaves like a Beta. Bare-bones, substandard configuration interface.

    In short, a typical Google product.

    Bloated with a search engine I couldn't care less about.

    Unsupported on 64-bit and no demonstrable plans to go there. Devs even claim that 64-bit is just a flash in the pan.

    In short, CRAP.

    ONE star - do NOT use.

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