Google Desktop Search beta for Mac OS X released

Two and a half years after the release of Google Desktop Search for Windows, the development team released a beta version of the program for Mac OS X. Starting today, users can download it on Google Desktop by clicking this link . After the release of GDS for Windows, product managers of Google Desktop, Rose Yao and Sandar Pichai, gathered a strong development team to port the program to Mac.

Like native Spotlight or third-party Quicksilver, GDS allows users to quickly find indexed computer content, including applications, music, photos, iChat logs, email, and other documents.

“Most of the information that is very important to the user is not on the Web — it’s on the user's computer, be it PC or Mac,” Yao said. - "We want users to facilitate data retrieval."

I would also like to note the possibility of indexing mail from Gmail and viewed web pages, so you do not need to be connected to the Web to view them. And for paranoids there is a function to disable all these features :)
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Yao said that all the indexed information is stored in a text file on the hard disk, which usually weighs no more than one gigabyte. “Despite the fact that I save all the documents and letters from the time of education in elementary school, now the index file weighs several megabytes,” she says (probably joking :).

Now GDS for Mac is inferior to its ancestor, which works under Windows - so far there are no side panels with gadgets, only a quick search is available. However, it is very good and is looking for files much faster than the native Spotlight (but also about Quicksilver)! A quick search is invoked by double pressing the Command key, although at the discretion of the user, this key can be changed to any other, but the standard window call is very convenient and it seems to me to change nothing.

Search results are automatically displayed in the pop-up menu at the bottom as you type a query, ordered by relevance (just like in Google Suggest). However, the user can display all the results at once in his browser window. By the way, Safari, Firefox and Camino are now supported.