Google Desktop will offer full text search over your email, computer files, chats, and the web pages you've viewed.

By making your computer searchable, it puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails, and bookmarks.

Google Desktop Search introduces new ways to access relevant and timely information. When you view a web page in Internet Explorer, it "caches" or stores its content so that you can later look at that same version of the page, even if its live content has changed or you're offline.

It organizes email search results into conversations, so that all email messages in the same thread are grouped into a single search result.

Google Desktop finds:

- Outlook / Outlook Express
- Word
- AOL Instant Messenger
- Excel
- Internet Explorer
- PowerPoint
- Text ....etc.

Here are some key features of "Google Desktop":

· Quickly search your computer for emails, web history, and files
· View news, photos and more anywhere on your desktop
· Add Google Gadgets to customize your desktop and Sidebar
· Developers: Create and share your own gadgets

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Support for Google Gadgets
· Improved indexing
· Option to remove deleted files from search cache

Reasons why this program is marked as ad-supported:

· Google Desktop will ask during installation if you wish to set Google as your homepage and default browser search.