Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Google Desktop Search Ver. 2 Beta - Sidebar

Google's new Version 2 Beta includes many new productivity features. One of my favorites is the Sidebar, a new desktop feature that shows you your new email, weather and stock information, personalized news and RSS/Atom feeds, and more. Sidebar is personalized automatically, without any manual configuration required (though you can certainly make your own customizations if you want to).

Google has also improved the desktop search experience. With Quick Find, you can now launch applications and see search results as you type without even opening a browser. It has also extended its Outlook integration, so you can search Google Desktop with the Outlook Toolbar and see results within Outlook itself. Finally, you can search even more stuff, including your Gmail, files on network drives, many Outlook data types (including Contacts, Tasks, Calendar, Notes and Journal) and MSN Messenger chats. And if you yearn for even stronger security, you can encrypt your entire index.

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