Google Desktop 2.0

I found a feature I really like in Google Desktop 2.0.

I’m buying a new house, and I’ve been working on a list of features I want to upgrade. I thought I’d received pricing on a particular feature, but I couldn’t find it, so I searched my desktop for it using GDS 2.0.

It showed me that the text I was looking for was contained in an earlier version of the document I was working on. It was actually keeping old versions of the document, and was able to give me the text from the earlier version.

Very cool feature.

2 Responses to “Google Desktop 2.0”

  1. splintor Says:

    “It was actually keeping old versions of the document” – by “It” you probably mean GDS 2.0. I would think it is MS Word who keeps the history of changes. GDS is only able to search and index this history.

    Cool feature, nevertheless.

  2. stevex Says:

    No it’s definitely GDS that’s caching multiple versions. For one single file in the search result it says “13 Cached” and when I click on that, it shows me the 13 versions of the file with the dates.

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