Google Desktop is a program allows text searches of a user’s e-mails, computer files, music, photos, chats, Web pages viewed, and other “Google Gadgets” in your desktop.Google Desktop allows the user to control which types of data are indexed by the programAfter performing searches, results can also be returned in an Internet browser on the Google Desktop Home Page much like the results for Google Web searches.
Feature of Google Desktop is the Sidebar
Email – a panel which lets one view one’s Gmail messages.
Scratch Pad – here one can store notes; they are saved automatically
Photos – displays a slideshow of photos from the “My Pictures” folder (address can be changed)
News – shows the latest headlines from Google News, and how long ago they were written. The News panel is personalized depending on the type of news you read.
Weather – shows the current weather for a location specified by the user.
Web Clips – shows recent posts from RSS news feeds.
Google Talk – If Google Talk is installed, double clicking the window title will dock it to one’s sidebar.
