Finally, Google has released a long-awaited native Linux application, Google Desktop for Linux. Google has release Linux version of desktop search software, which simultaneously scans the Web and computer-stored data for results.
Google Desktop Search allows users to search full text for e-mail, files, music, photos, chats, Gmail and Web pages. As the application is already shipping with the OS X and Windows versions, Google Desktop enables Linux users to search for text inside documents, local email messages, their Web history, and their Gmail accounts.
The new Linux version of Google Desktop is developed by Beijing engineers, which allows to search text, HTML files, e-mail from Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org documents, folders, images and music. The software also allows programmers to search source code and information contained in .pdf, .ps, .man and .info documents. This is first version of Linux, which comes in the form of both RPM and DEB distribution packages. The PM can be installed on Red Hat, Fedora, SUSE, and Mandriva distributions. The DEB will install on Debian and Ubuntu systems. Google Desktop supports Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, SUSE 10.1, and Red Flag 5 version of Linux.
Mendel Chuang, product marketing manager at Google, said,
Not only can you rediscover important documents that have been idling on your hard drive for years, but you can also search through emails saved in Gmail or other applications.
Via: Avirans Place
