Yesterday Google quietly updated its desktop search and widget product, Google Desktop. Users who download the updated product (available at Google or here at Download.com) will notice two things.

A potentially devastating hole in Google Inc.'s prevalent desktop search product could have exposed personal files on users' computers to data thieves. Google fixed the defect within weeks of being ...

Google announced yesterday that its Desktop 2 computer search software was out of beta with new sidebar panels, more customization and bolstered support for enterprise use. The search leader, which ...

Google on Thursday unveiled its first-generation desktop application for searching through personal files and Web history stored locally on a PC, a move that could shake up the landscape of Internet ...

Google has rolled out a beta version of its desktop software, adding such features as "Sidebar," which offers a personalized panel of information such as e-mail, stock quotes and news. The software, ...

Hard-drive storage capacities are constantly increasing, but for some of us, all that extra space just makes it harder to find the files we’re looking for. So it’s little surprise that Google has ...

Being huge fan of Quicksilver (the Swiss army knife of Mac utilities), I was pretty excited to check out the new Mac version of Google Desktop. As soon as it was released yesterday, I grabbed the ...