14 DAY TRIAL // Google Desktop, the downloadable application that is meant to take the power of the famous search engine into the offline area, gets another important update for the Mac version. The product was recently released and caused a lot of contradictory discussion about its functions because a Mac system provides instant access to Spotlight, a similar program with almost the same functions. However, the Mountain View-based company worked on the application and updated it to version 1.0.1, making it more competitive for the Mac OSX search function.
According to the release notes, the updated edition of Google Desktop has a lot of improved features but the most important is surely the speed of the re-crawl. As you might know, Google Desktop is based on a simple principle: it indexes all your files since the first run and provides you instant results by checking its own database of information. Every time you place new files on your disks, the application will re-crawl the drives, an operation that takes a certain amount of time depending on the size of the files. However, Google sustained this function was improved and it works 20 percent faster.
"Google Desktop is handy for finding the content of files, of course, but it has some other useful tricks as well. I use it as my application launcher: I just start typing the name of the application I want to run, and within a few keystrokes, the application appears at or near the top of the results list. Google Desktop also finds System Preference panes: type the name of the preference pane, and it bubbles to the top," Scott Knaster, Technical Writer, tried to describe one of the functions.
If you want to download Google Desktop for Mac, you can take it from Softpedia using this link.