What can GoOGLE do? Many people have seen this problem will definitely answer: as a powerful search engine, of course, a weapon for online search. At present, Google has expanded again. In addition to the normal network search, it has introduced a new type of desktop search tool, and users can search the local computer hard drive through a software called "Google Desktop". The information is integrated with the desktop search together with the web search.
Enter http://desktop.google.com This homepage software downloads the software named "Google Desktop", the program's installation process is very simple. However, it can only be installed in the partition of the system, and requires that the system partition has at least 1GB of remaining space, otherwise the warning box that is prompted cannot be installed. Don't worry that it will really take up 1GB of space, in fact, it is only less than 2MB of space.
A file index will be created automatically after installation. Double-click the shortcut to generate a desktop. You can call the program to generate a web page on this unit and open the search page in the browser. Enter the search keyword in the Search Text box, click the "Search Desktop" button, you can search the information in the local hard disk, and click the "Search The Web" button to connect directly to the Internet to search.
Click on the "Desktop Preferences" link on the search page to enter its setup page (Figure 1), select "Outlook", "Outlook Express", "AOL IM", "Word", "Excel by checking" Outlook "," AOL IM "in this page. "PowerPoint", "Text and Other", "Web History", "Include Secure Pages (HTTPS) In Web History", you can save them in the local hard drive, such as email information, The US online chat content, the information I have visited, the information in Microsoft Office, and text files. Of course, you can also enter a local path in the "Don't Search these Items" section to restrict the search.
When the software enters the English version of the Google home page, it is found that there is a "Desktop" link, but there is no connection on the Chinese version of the Google Home page, click the link to enter the "Google Desktop" page.
After testing, Google Desktop "Search speed is very fast, and the method of opening search results is completely like Google, just click on the link in the results (Figure 2). But it does not support the use of Chinese The word search local information; for the search results snapshot, the Chinese characters in the Word file can be displayed normally, but it is unable to display the Chinese characters in the TXT file in the snapshot. This is a pity. But the author firmly believes that Google will gradually improve these functions. Increase the weight of the competitors such as Microsoft to compete for the search market, and compete for the throne of the search field.
