Sidebar is personalized automatically, without any manual configuration required (though you can certainly make your own customizations if you want to).ĭevelopment on Google Desktop has been halted and thus discontinued. Google Desktop doesn't just help you search your computer it also helps you gather new information from the web with Sidebar, a new desktop feature that shows you your new email, weather and stock information, personalized news and RSS/Atom feeds, and more.
It 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, computer files, music, photos, chats and web pages that you've viewed.īy making your computer searchable, Google Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails and bookmarks. Google Desktop gives you easy access to information on your computer and from the web.