Google has some more big news, introducing a beta version of Google Desktop Search yesterday. As its “about” page explains, “It’s a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, chats, and the web pages you’ve viewed.” It sounds very promising, and by most of the accounts I’ve read so far does a much better job than Micro$oft’s built-in search. Unfortunately, for now it only indexes M$ Internet Explorer’s cache and Outlook’s mail, so those two portions of its functionality won’t be of much use to me at this time. 🙁 Still, I’m sure they have plans to expand to other browsers, and I can’t imagine them restricting themselves to just Outlook mail. kottke.org has some interesting remarks about this product, especially concerning his earlier prediction of a Google Operating System, definitely an interesting idea if it ever happens…
