It has been about 2-months but Google has finally ended the Google Desktop Gadget Contest. So who was lucky enough to make some money off of their creation?
3rd place “Day/Night World Clock by Beatrix Gottanka” Not only does this clock show you the local time, but there’s also a map that indicates where it’s night or day at any given hour. And if you want options, this gadget has them.
2nd place “Multiplayer Reversi Game by Turhan Aydin” Immerse yourself in the fun game Reversi with this visually rich gadget. Not only can you play against the computer, but this gadget takes advantage of our Google Talk API so you can also play with your friends.
1st place” diGGGadget by Marius and Yannick Stucki” Stay on top of the latest stories from digg.com. Click on a few buttons and you’ll know why we think it’s so great. It also takes advantage of our advanced APIs to enable sharing news with friends plus personalization based on your interests. 
Cool! I love the Google Desktop Gadgets. The only problem is that Google and Mac raced to the market with Desktop search and gadgets etc., but Microsoft is going to blow away the market for these two applications once Vista comes out.
Thurrott says the desktop search in Vista is better than Spotlight and even though the sidebar is slow loading right now – I’ll bet it’ll be great by the final release of Vista.
The sidebar is a little slow and the list of available gadgets is slim, but you’re right that it will blow away the market. It is very sleek and streamlined with the new Vista interface because of the transparency.
I’ve never used a Mac to be able to compare Vista’s desktop search with Spotlight, but once you use the search feature in Vista you definitely won’t want to go back to XP!
I’ve read the announcement this morning on Google Blog, but the description of the gadgets do not seem to me too interesting, not even to test them. I’ll pass…
I think the ones that won are kinda cool but I can’t believe some of the others that received the “honorable mention.” There are several current gadgets that are way better than those.
Hello Friends,
Bijoy Thangaraj here. Thanks to Google for selecting our Gadget Memory Smiley for Honorable Mention.
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Thanks and Regards,
Bijoy Thangaraj
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I used to use GDS, but stopped because I only really used it for the Quicklaunch box and I stuck those on my start menu. I rarely used the search and so it annoyed me that there were always two running processes taking up over 20MB for search and indexing, despite the fact that I had told it not to index any more files. If they improved the look and streamlined the processes I’d take another look.