Wednesday, May 14

Tool #3 - Google's Desktop Search (Personal KM Tool)

Google Desktop makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google. It's a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, files, music, photos, chats, Gmail, web pages that you've viewed, and more. By making your computer searchable, Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails and bookmarks.

Google Desktop doesn't just help you search your computer; it also helps you
gather new information from the web and stay organized with gadgets and sidebar. Google Gadgets can be placed anywhere on your desktop to show you new email, weather, photos, personalized news, and more. Sidebar is a vertical bar on your desktop that helps you keep your gadgets organized.

Key Benefits:

1) Useful results
Results provide all relevant information, including file name, brief snippet with search terms highlighted. Able to filter for particular type of items and preview search results inside the browser.

2) Smart indexing
One-time indexing of email, files and web history to enable desktop search.
Indexing is run automatically to be constantly updated.

3) Finding deleted files
Creates and store cached copies of files and items each time you view them, in computer’s hard drive. Thus, can
use Desktop to find items accidentally deleted instead of re-creating!!

4) Multiple file types
Google Desktop automatically indexes, and allows you to search the full text over many applications such as Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Internet Explorer, MSN/AOL Instant Messenger, PDF and etc. , the following types of items on your computer

You can read more here and even better,
you can GET the application here!

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