Google Desktop makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google. It’s provides full search over your email, files, music, photos, chats, Gmail, web pages that you’ve viewed, and more.
It also helps you gather new information from the web and stay organized with gadgets and sidebar. Google Gadgets can be placed anywhere on your desktop to show you new email, weather, photos, personalized news, and more. Sidebar is a vertical bar on your desktop that helps you keep your gadgets organized.
Version 5.8 of Google Desktop has been tweaked for increased performace. It utilises 50% less memory during startup and shutdown also happens five times faster!
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