5.9.1005.12335 / 14 September 2011; 7 years ago ( 2011-09-14) Written in Proprietary Website Google Desktop was a computer program with capabilities, created by for,, and systems. It allowed text searches of a user's email messages, computer files, music, photos, chats, Web pages viewed, and the ability to display 'Google Gadgets' on the user's desktop in a. In September 2011, Google announced it would discontinue a number of its products, including Google Desktop. Aug 16, 2016 - This week, Google released a new app called Duo, which allows for. This is an Apple site so the more logical comparison is to FaceTime. Google Duo is a brand new video calling platform that's available to Android and iOS. The Grovemade Apple Watch Dock will enhance your desk space with its. The reason given was that 'In the last few years, there’s been a huge shift from local to cloud-based storage and computing, as well as the integration of search and gadget functionality into most modern operating systems. People now have instant access to their data, whether online or offline. As this was the goal of Google Desktop, the product will be discontinued'. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Features [ ] As of January 2008, Google Desktop featured the following functionality: Sidebar [ ] A prominent feature of the Google Desktop is the, which holds several common Gadgets and resides off to one side of the desktop. The Sidebar is available on the Windows and Linux versions of Google Desktop. The Sidebar comes pre-installed with the following gadgets: • Email – a panel which lets one view their own messages. • Scratch Pad – here the user can store; they are saved automatically • Photos – displays a slideshow of from the 'My Pictures' folder (address can be changed) • News – shows the latest headlines from, and how long ago they were written. The News panel is personalized depending on the type of news you read. • Weather – shows the current weather for a location specified by the user. • Web Clips – shows updated content from and web feeds. • Google Talk – If is installed, double clicking the window title will dock it to the user's sidebar. Like the Windows Taskbar, the Google Desktop sidebar can be set to Auto-Hide mode, where it will only appear once the user moves the mouse cursor towards the side where it resides. If not on auto-hide, by default the sidebar will always take up about 1/6 – 1/9 of the screen (depending on the screen resolution), and other windows are forced to resize. However, the sidebar can be resized to take less space, and users can disable the 'always on top' feature in the options. With the auto-hide feature on, the sidebar temporarily overlaps maximized. Another feature that comes with the Sidebar is alerts. When the Sidebar is minimized, new email and news can be displayed on a pop-up window above the Windows Taskbar. Quick Find [ ]. Quick find box When searching in the sidebar, deskbar or floating deskbar, Google Desktop displays a 'Quick Find'. This window is filled with six (by default) of the most relevant results from the user's computer. These results update as the user types, and allows use without having to open another browser window. Deskbars [ ] Deskbars are boxes which enable searching directly from the. Web results will open in a browser window, and selected computer results will be displayed in the 'Quick Find' box (see above). A Deskbar can either be a fixed deskbar, which sits in the Windows Taskbar, or a Floating Deskbar, which may be positioned anywhere on the desktop. Email indexing [ ] Google Desktop includes plugins that allow indexing and searching the contents of local,, and email databases, outside of the client applications' built-in search functions. ![]() For Lotus Notes, only local databases are indexed for searching. Google Desktop's email indexing feature is also integrated with Google's web-based email service,; it can index and search the email messages in Gmail accounts. ![]() Gadgets and plug-ins [ ]. Main article: Desktop gadgets are interactive mini-applications that can be placed anywhere on the user's desktop – or docked in the Sidebar – to show new email, weather, photos, and personalized news. Google offers a gallery of pre-built gadgets for download on the official website. For developers, Google offers an and an official blog for anyone who wants to write gadgets or plug-ins for Google Desktop. An automated system creates a developer hierarchy called the 'Google Desktop Hall of Fame', where programmers can advance based on their gadgets' number and popularity. The SDK also allows third-party applications to make use of the search facilities provided by Google Desktop Search. For example, the file manager offers integrated Google Desktop Search support. Results list: title meta data [ ] Even though other desktop search programs can search files meta data, Google Desktop (for Windows) is the only one that uses the 'title' tag for its results lists of all files (On Linux it shows the meta-data of HTML files, but not PDF files). Other programs use the file names for their results lists.
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