]It's bizarre when you think about it: At the moment, it's easier
]for most PC users to find information in the billions of pages t
]hat make up the Web than it is to find it on their own hard
]drives. That's because Windows' built-in search tools are so
]crude, and Google is so good. But with Google's new Desktop
]Search utility, help is at hand--because you can now use Google
]to search your drive.

]It's a completely Googlesque search experience, which means it's
]fast, uncluttered, and accurate. And because Desktop's just
]another kind of Google search, you can quickly hop between
]results on your own system and ones on the Web, in newsgroups,
]and in other Google repositories.

]while it's extremely cool, it's not perfect. For one thing, it
]can't index every type of file--for instance, it doesn't handle
]the e-mail program we use here at PC World, Lotus Notes. (Too bad-
]-Notes' built-in search tools are nearly as annoying as
]Windows'.)

]At the moment, at least, it's also short on advanced features.
]For example, it doesn't let you limit results to files created
]within a certain date range. (Even Windows search does that.)

]Then there's something my colleague Tom Spring has blogged a
]about: "This utility is so good that it finds stuff you might not
]want found, such as e-mails and chat transcripts."

Google's Desktop Search: First Impressions