Google.com

Google.com is a lightweight Yahoo! widget built specifically for helping users launch search operations on Google.com directly from their desktop.

It sports a clean and simplistic interface that enables you to input the text directly into the small panel.

The gadget is able to display the Google search results via your default web browser, and there are no settings for changing the web browser, tweaking the gadget's background and text colors, and viewing a history with the performed searches.

Other options offered by the Yahoo! environment give you the possibility to prevent the windows from being dragged, set the opacity level, and ignore mouse events.

You can also make the gadget stay on top of other applications, and this proves to pretty useful, especially when dealing with multiple tools at the same time. What’s more, you can hide or close the widget, and move it to any area of the screen.

Since it doesn’t comprise any configuration settings of its own, even rookies can master the process with just a few clicks. Although it hasn’t been updated for a while, Google.com carries out a task quickly, and no errors showed up throughout the entire process.

As it would be expected from such a small utility, it remains light on system resources, so it doesn’t burden the overall performance of the computer, nor interfere with other programs’ functionality.

To sum things up, Google.com offers a simple software solution when it comes to helping you launch search operations on Google.com with minimum effort. It can be easily configured and installed by all types of users, regardless of their experience level.