Google Desktop Search
Wow. Two searches performed with the new Google Desktop Search Beta and I’m amazed, astounded, flabbergasted. It’s just like having a mini Google on your Windows PC. It’s fast. It’s lean. It’s a fine searching machine.
It indexes your damn Outlook email! This is unbelievable. Get it now.
Update: The blogosphere has exploded with news and opinions of Google Desktop Search. Check out Feedster’s search results, 12,670 results and climbing.
Update on 10/15: If you’re a Firefox user, I highly recommend Ken Schutte’s Slogger extension for creating a local browser history that Google Desktop can index. Slogger has many nice configuration options and allows you to save every page you visit in full HTML. Note: the version posted on mozilla.org does not work with Firefox 1.0, but the latest version on Ken’s site does. Also, you’ll need a lot of disk space to cache the entire content of every web page you visit. Luckily, you can choose to save pages in plain text to conserve disk space.