Google Desktop For Linux Is Finally Here
Google has finally released their popular Desktop Search software for Linux users, coming some 3 years after it was first introduced for Windows. The new Google Desktop for Linux can help a user find files, documents, web history, emails and more. On their Google Desktop blog, Google describes their product as:
For most Linux users, looking for files, documents, or emails usually involves some combination of ‘find’ and ‘locate,’ but sometimes these tools don’t quite do what you’re looking for, like finding that single PDF containing the specific topic you’re looking for. Or you just wish there was a much easier way to find something than ‘find /home/username -name ‘*.pdf’ and ‘pdftotext pdf_file_name.pdf output.txt…’
So that’s why today we’re releasing Google Desktop for Linux. Developed primarily out of our Beijing office, it includes almost all the features from the first Windows version of Google Desktop Search plus the Quick Search Box, so you can quickly search through all your files, emails, web history, and more. Just hit ‘Ctrl’ twice to bring up the Quick Search Box and start finding your stuff!
I am glad to see Google coming out with this software for Linux users. It demonstrates that Linux is finding a place in the desktop world of computing. I am also sure we will see Linux distributions that just may incorporate the Google Desktop in their future releases.
The full story and free download can be obtained from here.
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