Google Desktop
Google Desktop is by now the fastest product on getting out of Google Labs . The beta stage was only 5 or 6 months. I will not talk about the product because more competent reviews can be found here and here.
What is interesting in this version are the plugins. Haven’t installed any yet but at least 2 will get a test drive in a few minutes:
Larry’s Help File Indexer allows you to index CHM files, one of the most popular formats for Windows help files, manuals and ebooks. An alternative to the Help menu – just use Google Desktop Search to find the help information you need.
well …this one looks awsome….just imagine to have all your reference helps just one click away
This plugin is a web spider (“Kongulo” is Icelandic for spider) that crawls websites you specify and makes them searchable via GDS.
Kongulo follows links in HTML frame, image and anchor tags. It obeys robots.txt and knows basic and digest HTTP authentication. It can be run continuously, checking for updates to previously crawled pages, and uses the If-Modified-Since HTTP header to minimize transfers when doing so.
You can provide a regexp to limit crawls to e.g. your intranet domain.
This version does not have a graphical user interface and can be run from the command-line only.
Another one good for quick references. For example if you have a pair of sites that you check regullary for knowledge this plugin makes it easier to get ALL the proper results. Just like your own Google. Still I hope it doesn’t count the external links because your results will be messy than 
Tags: Google, desktop search, Plugins
man this blog blows!
When trying to run this app I got an error regarding not being able to find MSVCR71.DLL (it doesn’t really have an installer). The following Microsoft article explains that applications should include such DLL’s on their own and not assume that .NET will be in place to include this DLL:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326922