The Sidebar comes pre-installed with the following gadgets: The Sidebar is available on the Windows and Linux versions of Google Desktop. Īs of January 2008, Google Desktop featured the following functionality:Ī prominent feature of the Google Desktop is the Sidebar, which holds several common Gadgets and resides off to one side of the desktop. As this was the goal of Google Desktop, the product will be discontinued'. People now have instant access to their data, whether online or offline. The reason given was that 'In the last few years, there’s been a huge shift from local to cloud-based storage and computing, as well as the integration of search and gadget functionality into most modern operating systems. In September 2011, Google announced it would discontinue a number of its products, including Google Desktop.
It allowed text searches of a user's email messages, computer files, music, photos, chats, Web pages viewed, and the ability to display 'Google Gadgets' on the user's desktop in a Sidebar. Google Desktop was a computer program with desktop search capabilities, created by Google for Linux, Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows systems.
