Yahoo!'s still the king of desktop search but Google Desktop 2.0's sidebar offers a compelling new way to navigate both your own computer and the Internet. Google surprised everyone in 2004 with the ...

While most of the United States was getting ready for the long Labor Day weekend, Google used Friday afternoon to announce that over the next several months, it will be discontinuing Aardvark, Google ...

Google announced yesterday that its Desktop 2 computer search software was out of beta with new sidebar panels, more customization and bolstered support for enterprise use. The search leader, which ...

Yesterday Google quietly updated its desktop search and widget product, Google Desktop. Users who download the updated product (available at Google or here at Download.com) will notice two things.

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Despite a quirk here and there, the latest version of ...

Being huge fan of Quicksilver (the Swiss army knife of Mac utilities), I was pretty excited to check out the new Mac version of Google Desktop. As soon as it was released yesterday, I grabbed the ...

Google on Thursday unveiled its first-generation desktop application for searching through personal files and Web history stored locally on a PC, a move that could shake up the landscape of Internet ...

Google has improved its Google Desktop PC and Web search application by adding to it a panel that provides information from a variety of sources, the Mountain View, Calif., company announced Monday.

Google Desktop Search is now out of beta testing phase and ready for full scale promotions as a whole product offering which now includes some extra features. Google Desktop is a speedy application ...

A few months ago, the press revealed a potentially serious security flaw inside Google’s Desktop search engine. And, according to new research that my company will be publishing later this week, a lot ...

While we joke often about Google's addiction to launching products in beta that stay in beta, one exception that must be noted is Google Desktop. When launched in October of 2004, Google Desktop ...