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Google Desktop in Linux systems

Google's beta version of Google Desktop search for Linux in a sign of encouragement by the search giant for Linux on the desktop.

It’s a development proponents of open source and free software will welcome wholeheartedly. After all, it stands as a major boost to their ideology. Signifying its encouragement to Linux on the desktop, Google has come out with a beta version of Google Desktop search for Linux.

Google Desktop allows people to search the Web while also searching the full text of all the information on their computers, including Gmail and their Web search history.

However, Google Desktop for Linux was written using Google’s own desktop search algorithms and not existing Linux search applications like Beagle, a company representative said. So, as of now, Google Desktop for Linux is proprietary and not an open-source software.

[ Via zdnet ]