Google Desktop for Windows 5.9.911.3589

3.0 out of 5 stars 3.0 (731 votes)

(November 18, 2009)

Windows 2000/Vista/XP / Freeware / 63,929 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
    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

  2. 3 out of 5 stars
    roj

    Reviewing 5.9.911.3589 (Nov 18, 2009)

    How about some release notes?

  3. 1 out of 5 stars
    mfaccone

    Reviewing 5.9.909.30391 (Oct 18, 2009)

    Windows 7 and Vista will let you do the same thing as this.
    Google is only just trying to control the market and get into your hard drive.
    Now they have an app to mess up your IPhone as well.
    Stay away from anything Google or Yahoo is my motto. All they want to do is infiltrated your browsing experience and find information to all your habits.

  4. 1 out of 5 stars
    DeKoquonut

    Reviewing 5.9.909.30391 (Oct 16, 2009)

    Installing this is like putting a handfull of sand into your salad. Yet, people still do it. some people should not be allowed to breath.

  5. 3 out of 5 stars
    roj

    Reviewing 5.9.909.30391 (Oct 16, 2009)

    Lived with this for a few days now.

    It's still got a bug where gadgets will suddenly disappear from the sidebar. The outline of the gadget and the space it occupies remains but the gadget itself is gone. This is noticeably prevalent with the LauncherMod app launcher (indispensable to me).

    Also, the bug persists where it is too easy to accidentally undock a gadget form the sidebar. A lock function MUST be added.

    Windows Vista DOES offer the sidebar functionality but Windows 7 DOES NOT. The "renovations" to the sidebar now lose the "bar always on top" function that would push applications aside from the space it occupied, leaving anything on the sidebar always instantly accessible (good design, Micro$haft - you stole it form every other sidebar that has been there since Windows 3.1). One must now click an icon to display gadgets (stupid move, Micro$haft!) or leave them in "always on top" mode which means they appear on top of other applications (even more stupid move, Micro$haft!).

    That being said, Google needs to get past its shoddy application image which means that (heaven help us!) they should actually practice QA and proper testing on their apps.

    The current bugs are inexcusable.

    THREE stars.

    Note to DeKoquonut:

    Ain't nuthin' but an echo in yours, mon.

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