GOOGLE DESKTOP
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008<desktop.google.com>: For Windows only - a way to search your computer’s contents faster than any built-in finder function. Works very well when it comes to searching Word documents, AOL IM messages, web searches, etc. You can pause it if you don’t want what you’re doing to be indexed by Google. The information isn’t shared with Google itself (you know this because it works even if you are offline). Be sure to read the FAQ. Mac folks get the same functionality in the Spotlight search built into Tiger, the latest version of OSX.