I am simply addicted to Google Desktop. I can't find files like I used to before Google Desktop Search.

Now, I just have to remember keywords (which is always easier) and go search. And I land up on that buried email, document or file in seconds.

And now Google Desktop Search has gone to the next level. Here's version 2 with some real cool nifty features: http://desktop.google.com/?pr=hpp-gds-en-v2-3

There is a Google Desktop Search Enterprise Edition too that organizations can deploy for search within Intranet. That means you can search on your file servers, other peer computers and just about everywhere!

The interesting thing is Google has beaten Microsoft to taking up the "sidebar" space. Google Desktop allows you to have a sidebar similar to the proclaimed Longhorn sidebar that is to release with Microsoft Windows Vista. It will be interesting to see what happens if people get used to Google's sidebar. Considering Microsoft still has an year to get Vista to release and then the time it will take for people to adopt, Google sure has an upper hand.