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Google has recently announced through its blog “googleblog.blogspot.com” that Google Desktop is now Available for those who are running Linux as their operating system.

The Google Desktop application comes now in a beta version and its purpose is the same as in Windows and Mac OS. Google Desktop for Linux, makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google.

You can search for all office files, including documents and slides created with OpenOffice.org, search email, and search source codes and information contained in .pdf, .ps, .man and .info documents.

It also features:

• Quick Search Box.
• Comprehensive Indexing.
• Recovery of previous versions of files which have accidentally been deleted.
• Gmail and web history search.

Another important aspect related to this application is that it is based entirely on Google’s own desktop search algorithms and not on existing Linux search programs, therefore, its source code will not be open.

The program works very well with both KDE and GNOME and it is supported by some famous Linux distros, coming as RPM and DEB distribution packages for Red Hat, Fedora, SUSE, and Mandriva distributions (RPM).

With this release, Google Desktop joins the Picasa, Google Earth and Google Toolbar for Firefox applications among Google’s offerings for Linux.

Google Desktop for Linux was developed by Google’s Beijing engineering team and works across many versions of Linux, such as Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, SUSE 10.1, and Red Flag 5.

The available languages include English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Portuguese.

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