Welcome to the Google Desktop
At first glance, the Google Desktop is a sidebar that sits to the right of your computer desktop, as shown in Figure 4.1. The content of the sidebar is totally customizable. As you’ll learn later in this chapter, you can add a variety of gadgets to the sidebar, each with a different and unique function.
FIGURE 4.1. Google Desktop installed on your computer desktop—it’s all in the sidebar on the right side of the screen.
The sidebar, however, is just the icing on the cake. The key ingredient in the Google Desktop is a PC-centric version of the Google search engine. After it’s installed, you use Google ...
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