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 ...

I'm not the most organized person in the world (that honor goes to my fellow editors!), but the free Google Desktop search software has saved me from more than one potentially embarrassing situation: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Several flaws in the popular Google Desktop software could open PCs up to intruders and possible data theft, a security company has warned. The search giant has released patches for the issues, which ...

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 ...

Google has improved its Google Desktop PC and Web search application by adding to it a panel that provides information from a variety of sources, the Mountain View, Calif., company announced Monday.