Google Desktop for Mac

Filed under: Cool Apps, News; Author: Alex; Posted: April 5, 2007 at 1:09 pm;

Google Desktop for Mac

Google Desktop has finally made its way to the Mac. Almost two and a half years after the initial introduction of the Google Desktop search beta for Windows, the desktop searching tool will be available as a beta for OS X users later today. After taking some time to round out Google Desktop on Windows, internationalize the software, and do extensive testing, Google Desktops Product Managers Rose Yao and Sundar Pichai told Ars that they built up a strong Mac team to bring the software over to the Mac.

Like both Spotlight (built into OS X 10.4) and the third-party utility Quicksilver, Google Desktop offers users the ability perform an indexed search of their entire computer’s contents, including applications, music, photos, chat logs, e-mail, and other documents. “A lot of the most important information to a user isn’t available on the web, it’s on your computer, whether that be on a Mac or PC,” Yao told Ars. “We want to help users search for the data that’s most important to them with Google Desktop search.”

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