Google Desktop 5 Speaks 29 Languages

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Google says that the latest version of its desktop search tool comes in 29 languages. Impressive, but how many of you actually use Google Desktop Search? Sound off in the comments section if you do.

Seven weeks after launching the English-language version of Google Desktop 5, the company localized the software in 29 languages, including French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Russian -- and Hindi, the first time a version of the application has been offered in that language.
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Maybe it's just me but I think I have used "Search" a total of 5 times in all the years I've been on my PC. Everything is in My Documents under seperate folders. If I need to search my PC often enough to use a program to help me with using search then I believe personally my ass needs to be a little bit more organized. But then again, maybe that's just me.
 
I installed it once, but it didn't last the day. I hope the installation lets you de-select check language files.
 
Useful for certain people, generally install it on certain computers if asked, which is actually a surprisingly large amount. Those who think it is because people are disorganized are wrong in its real usage, instead it is better used for quickly getting a document when you have many. Very common on home office computers, while not so useful anymore with Vista offering similar feature built in. I use it myself on a XP Pro machine at work that has a large Word document file catalog that I haven't put in a server yet (to busy) and it works out just fine.
 
i use it at work. our network drives are not always the best organized (i.e. the public drive is bad)
 
I don't use it on my personal computer because I know where everything is, but I do use it extensively on the work network, because it's a mess and the majority of our files are Word and Excel.
 
I use it a few times a month and find it immensely useful. It indexes my emails in several different email accounts, and it indexes every webpage I've been to, as well as documents. If there is something I've read about and I'm not sure where I read it, I just punch it in and it shows me. It even keeps multiple revisions of documents cached so you can look at some old piece of information that was deleted in the latest document revision. Also very handy if the piece of information you had was from a website that doesn't exist anymore and has been removed from Google's index, you just pull up the version that it cached for you. Oh, you can also have it index IM logs from over the past several years from different messaging programs.

Perhaps I'm just a data whore, or maybe people that don't use it (or something like it) don't because they simply haven't learned to take advantage of it yet.
 
Skrying said:
Useful for certain people, generally install it on certain computers if asked, which is actually a surprisingly large amount. Those who think it is because people are disorganized are wrong in its real usage, instead it is better used for quickly getting a document when you have many. Very common on home office computers, while not so useful anymore with Vista offering similar feature built in. I use it myself on a XP Pro machine at work that has a large Word document file catalog that I haven't put in a server yet (to busy) and it works out just fine.
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Vista's built-in feature is the reason why I am not using it anymore as well. I used to use it on my parent's Pentium 4 Media Center PC when I was storing my Japanese downloaded games on it, but as soon as my father bought us a laptop computer and put it in my room to replace my old PC, I uninstalled Google Desktop and moved all my stuff to the new laptop, which runs 4 times faster at least than the other computer once I got rid of all the junk.

Google Desktop just is not necessary anymore considering that Microsoft's offering does ALL files right out of the box, not just a few like Google Desktop does.
 
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