Google Launches Desktop Search Utility

With desktop search being one of the remaining frontiers for the search engine industry, there is competition to see who can develop an effective means of searching contents on a computer. Recently, a few software packages have upped the ante considerably. Copernic, Blinkx, and the announcement of Mac's Spotlight are a few of the better-developed solutions.

GDS FAQ, the utility will allow users to: -Search email from Outlook 2000+ and Outlook Express 5+ -Search files in TXT, HTML, DOC, XLS, and PPT formats (Office 2000+) -Search chats from AOL 7+ and AOL Instant Messenger 5+ -Search web pages viewed in Internet Explorer 5+ To accomplish this, Google indexes files on your computer while it's inactive. The utility can be used immediately upon installation; however, your search results won't be comprehensive. In order to conduct a search, users will click the GDS icon that resides in the toolbar tray. Once this is done, a window opens, providing a search interface that's similar to the Google search interface. You enter a query and get a familiar results page designed in the Google SERP format. The utility is a small download, weighing in at only 400k. According to their Murdok. Visit Murdok for the

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