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Description of Google Desktop Search

With this program, Google applies their searching expertise to help you find files on your computer's hard drive. Google Desktop Search allows you to scour your hard drive for lost or forgotten documents. The program searches for Microsoft Office files, AOL IM chat sessions, cached Web pages, and Outlook and Outlook Express e-mail files. It creates a searchable index. And because you're searching your desktop, not the Internet, you can conduct searches when you're not online. It even gives you a sidebar that displays current news, local weather, new information from recently visited sites, and more.

You should be aware, however, that this is beta software, so it is not a fully tested release. In addition, PC World found a potential security problem with the file, in which it could resurrect Web pages that were not meant to be viewed again.

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• Reviewed by: jalars

  09-30-2011

  Duration of ownership: 4 Months

  Strengths: Fast, easy to use. Finding a file by name is very quick and easy and works well

  Weaknesses: Finding a word or phrase in documents -- about 1/4 to 1/3 of the time it can't find something in a file that has long been there (so its indexed). Same problem as Windows 7 search.

  Overall Evaluation: Its a July 2011 download from Google's website by the way. EVALUATION: ONLY FAIR because content searching in Word documents is my key need and use.

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