Google makes finding data easier
It is very easy to find a file on a single computer. Nowadays, many people are using multiple computers. You may have typed up some vital text to be included in your next business report, or writen an e-mail message that contains some important information that you’ve now forgotten. But which computer did you save the file?
Google has come up with a way to answer the question. The latest version of the company’s popular Desktop Search tool available for free (http://desktop.google.com) provides a Search Across Computers feature. This feature will allow you to conduct searches across all your computers while you’re sitting at just one of them.
Search Across Computers, while easy to implement, comes with some caveats. It is worth exploring the tool in some detail. Once you download and install Google Desktop Search, open the tool either from your Start menu or from the taskbar icon that the program installs.
Once you do, you will see a familiar-looking browser window with the Google Desktop logo. Click the Desktop Preferences link to the right of the search box, and then click the Google Account features tab. Scroll down, and you’ll see the Search Across Computers section. Select the checkbox that enables Search Across Computers, and type in your Google account information.
If the Search Across Computers is activated on your computers, you can use Desktop Search to locate any text-based document on any computer, regardless of whether all of the computers are turned on or off. The searchable include those created by office applications, e-mail, Web pages visited, and chats.
Google Desktop Search work this magic Here’s where things get tricky - and objectionable to some. With Search Across Computers enabled. Google indexes and stores versions of your files remotely on its serves.
Search Across Computers is conducting a Web-style search on Google’s computers. Those computers just happen to have indexes of the material on all of the computers you’ve allowed the company access to.
