Google hasn't been known to take the step of integrating their services together very frequently. They offer so many different services, yet often times many of them remain separate like Gmail and Google Reader. It's a natural combo for Google to put an RSS Reader in Gmail - after all, the new Yahoo Mail Beta has RSS integrated into it, as does the new Outlook and Thunderbird.
Google has now branched their Desktop Search application across all of the major operating systems: Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new Beta for Linux just hit the Web today and runs on KDE or GNOME under Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, SUSE 10.1, or Red Flag 5. I’m sure those are just the minimum requirements and that it would run fine on Ubuntu 7.06 as well.
Well, it happened...again. Microsoft lost the war against Google in regards to the integrated search feature that Vista has. Google was upset at just how integrated the search capabilities are in Vista, and wanted a way to implement their own instant search throughout the operating system.
Just today, Google has released Google Desktop for Mac in beta. It will index applications, PDF’s, files supported by Spotlight’s plug-ins, and the history to your web browser which then makes it possible to search.
A new version of Google Desktop is available about one-month after Google was notified of a vulnerability in the desktop search application. Watchfire, a web application security company, notified Google about the loop hole on January 4th, 2007 and Google was able to make an updated version available on February 1st, 2007.
