Google® Power Tools Bible

Chapter 11. Personalizing Google Desktop

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• Desktop features

• Installing the Desktop

• Managing Panels

• Preference for Google Desktop

• Plug-ins

• Google Desktop Enterprise

• Create and Share

• Google Update

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Google offers software that you can download to your computer and use to perform searches through your files and folders on your personal computer. Google Desktop is a free software program that not only gives you the power of Google on your own hard drive but also allows you to have fun with its plug-ins and gadgets.

Google Desktop Features

Google Desktop gives you the ability to search your computer for information stored there such as e-mail, Web pages you have visited, chats, and other files such as music, video, and word processing documents. Searching your desktop is just as simple as using Google to search the Web. Your search results appear using the same interface used to display Google Web search results. Google’s search technology employs a flexible, quick, and accurate indexing system that allows you to find your files wherever they exist on your computer.

You can customize your Desktop search results so that future searches provide more of what you’re looking for and fewer of the files you aren’t interested in seeing appear in your search results. By deleting files from your search results, the next time you do a similar search you won’t see them. Erasing files from the search results only erases them from the Google index. The actual file ...