CHAPTER 4 Creating a Custom Workspace with Google Desktop

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You use the Google website to search the Web, but you need to find a lot of information on your own computer as well. So why can’t you use Google to search your hard disk?

Well, you can, thanks to the Google Desktop software program. Google Desktop installs on your PC and automatically indexes all your data files, email messages, and the like. When you conduct a Google Desktop search, the program searches this index and returns a list ...

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