"We want to help users search for the data that's most important to them with Google Desktop search."

As this was the goal of Google Desktop, the product will be discontinued".

The problem has been resolved as of Google Desktop Search version 5.9.

Yet believe it or not, the little search box is the last thing you'll notice when you install Google Desktop.

For now, new products like Google Desktop are not expected to contribute directly to the company's revenue.

If you don't use these programs, Google Desktop will seem a lot less essential.

In fact, Google Desktop takes between five hours and all day to build its index.

You can fire up Google Desktop for a search in either of two ways.

The other way to use Google Desktop is a little freakier.

For example, these programs can search more kinds of files than Google Desktop.