Google Desktop 1.0

Google Desktop Search 1.0 offers more preference settings than the earlier beta, including a choice whether or not to index password-protected Office documents.

Google Desktop offers a text excerpt of found e-mail messages with a link to a preview of the full message.

Google Desktop displays thumbnails for image-type files in its search results; each filename is a link that opens the file.

For Web history results, Google Desktop offers a thumbnail view as well as a text excerpt.

Google Desktop caches multiple versions of the text files it indexes, allowing you to revert to an earlier version or even recover the text of a deleted document.

The cached documents displayed by Google Desktop are text-only; no formatting is retained.