Good News!!! Google has released Google Desktop for Linux. Here is the list of features in Google Desktop for Linux:
Quick Search Box – Type a few letters or words into the search box and your top results pop up instantly. You can call up the Quick Search Box by pressing the Ctrl key twice, and hide it by pressing Ctrl twice again.
Search Your Gmail and Web History – Google Desktop helps you find what you’re looking for by searching your Gmail and web history along with your hard drive. And because your index is stored locally on your own computer, you can even access your Gmail and web history while you’re offline.
Google Desktop automatically indexes and allows you to search the full text of virtually all your files, including the following types:
- Gmail
- Text files and source code
- PDF and PS files
- HTML files
- Email from Thunderbird
- OpenOffice.org documents
- Image and music files
- Man pages and Info pages
- File and folder names
Smart Indexing – After you install Google Desktop, it starts indexing the files that are already on your computer.
Google Integration – Integration with Google web search.
File Versioning – Google Desktop creates cached copies (snapshots) of your files and other items each time they have been changed, and stores these copies on your computer’s hard drive. As a result, you can often use Desktop to find previous versions of your files or ones you’ve accidentally deleted.
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