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10 great uses for Google Desktop. The only one I didn’t know about before was the “Control Panel replacement”. You can use Google Desktop to launch control panel items.

I just realised. Google Desktop Search is a HTTP server that works on port 4664. 4664 is what you need to type on a phone to spell “GOOG”. Incidentally, Google SMS requires you to send messages to GOOGL (46645). Comments Scott Caplan 4 Sep 2005 6:07 pm: That’s pretty darn awesome!

I installed Google Desktop Search 2. The best part is “search as you type”. It also introduces a sidebar showing e-mail, RSS feeds, news, photos, popular searches, etc. The indexing is much faster too. (I take that back. Indexing is as slow as ever.) Comments Sumeer 24 Aug 2005 5:15 am: I am installing the same. Yet to use it khjk 24 Aug 2005 9:44 am: nice one Aditya Chaturvedi 25 Aug 2005 9:50 am: Yes Indexing is very slow. when working i had to stop Google desktop. S Anand 25 Aug 2005 10:21 am: I did the same. But fortunately, it’s finished indexing within 48 hours (with lots of breaks).

GDS Extreme is a Windows GUI front-end for Google Desktop Search that lets you filter / sort results (like X1.)

How to find MP3s using Google. Create a montage using Google. Add persistent searches to Gmail. Get credit card numbers using Google. Convert your desktop into a search engine. All using Google. Comments Dhar 8 Mar 2005 10:17 am: Even more using Google: http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/index.php?module=prodreviews