Google Desktop for Windows 5.9.1005.12335

3.0 out of 5 stars 3.0 (742 votes)

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Windows 2000/Vista/XP / Freeware / 74,012 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. 4 out of 5 stars
    nvic

    Reviewing 5.9.1005.12335 (May 25, 2010)

    It's a nice tool to have if you're on XP and have a ton of files you frequently need to search. I'm on XP and do run a few computers with it. Turned off the sidebar.

    Also, if you know what you're doing, it can be used to create a poor man's alternative to an enterprise search appliance.

    It's worthless on Vista/7 though, so it's a bit pointless to target those platforms, unless it can offer something worthwhile that the OS doesn't already include.

  2. 3 out of 5 stars
    smanofsteel76

    Reviewing 5.9.1005.12335 (May 25, 2010)

    This was great back when Windows XP came out. Its now 2010 and we are now in the age of Windows 7. This software needs a major update or Google needs to kill it. I already have desktop search and gadgets built in to Windows 7 and someone needs to let Google know that the sidebar is dead. However I would love to have something that would display my Gmail count, my Google Agenda, and Tasks on the desktop similar to Outlook's To Do Bar. Please update this old software Google, please!

  3. 3 out of 5 stars
    boelectronic

    Reviewing 5.9.1005.12335 (May 25, 2010)

    useful for Win XP and Vista users, but in Win7 it's useless because both Search and Gadgets in Win 7 are great and no need to Google.

    Where is change-log?

  4. 1 out of 5 stars
    xsnred

    Reviewing 5.9.911.3589 (Nov 18, 2009)

    Google? Might as well give them your SS # because they know everything else you do. -10

  5. 3 out of 5 stars
    roj

    Reviewing 5.9.911.3589 (Nov 18, 2009)

    How about some release notes?

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