Google Desktop released for Linux
by Brad Linder Jun 28th 2007 at 9:23AM
Google has released a version of Google Desktop for Linux. While the PC version of this software includes a gadget engine, Google Desktop for Linux, like the relatively new Google Desktop for Mac is pretty much just a desktop search engine.Google Desktop will index OpenOffice.org files, HTML, PDF, PS, MAN, and INFO documents among others. It'll also track your web history if you use Firefox, and emails from Thunderbird and Gmail.
Google had previously released Google Earth and Picasa for Linux.
This isn't the first desktop search product for Linux. But the ability to integrate with Firefox and Gmail is nice. And while we don't expect anyone to switch from PC to Linux solely because Google Desktop is now available, it's always good news for those who have made the switch when a Windows application is ported to Linux.
[via Google Desktop Blog]
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Egan Foote said 10:44AM on 6-28-2007
Finally!
Egan, out.
http://eganfoote.wordpress.com
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julian said 11:32AM on 6-28-2007
yes! I love this
i guess I'm still waiting for them to put the gadgets on it but its great that they are thinking of us!
(because linux widgits suck... if you know of any good ones feel free to drop some names and yes i said good ones .. not bad ones)
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jackie113 said 11:50PM on 7-11-2007
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