Google upgrade Desktop Search

Yesterday (May 10), Google officially launched an updated version of Google Desktop and introduced some new products. According to the developer, the newly designed products aim to improve the quality of information collected on the Web.

New products include Google Notebook, Google Trends and Google Co-op. The search engine has been upgraded to Google Desktop version 4.

Marissa Mayer - Google's vice president of search products and users - said Google Desktop 4 allows users to use interactive 'mini' applications directly from the app's Sidebar, without having to download. Go to or open from the web browser.

At the product launch, Mayer demonstrated this feature by dragging the icon of a music file and dropping it into the icon of the music application on the Sidebar, the application is automatically started.

Google Desktop 4 is also integrated with other Google products, allowing users to use the Sidebar, for example, easily view details of a friend's birth date via Orkut network or see information about a scheduled event in Google Calendar. Desktop 4 also automatically syncs with other computers to capture all changes.

Google Desktop 4 can also be configured to automatically generate a customized homepage. 'The app identifies me as a person who likes to watch videos, likes to travel and regularly uses eBay, the customized website will have that information,' Mayer said.

Launched a series of new products

Google Notebook is designed to allow users to use the one-link annotation feature on the results page to search and store the search result information in a virtual memo that appears in one door. pop-up.

Users can also collect text, images from web pages and store them in Google Notebook, open a full-screen Notebook window, drag-and-drop arrange objects in Notebook, and remember email addresses. other people. Google Notebook requires users to install an additional plug-in application and a Google account.

Google Trends graphs the display of the number of search commands made on Google's search engine. 'If you are an advertising industry and you want to learn about trends in different geographical territories, Google Trends will give you a lot of useful information,' says Jonathan Rosenberg, vice president. Senior in charge of Google's product management, said.

Google Co-op will only appear next week, is a social search service aimed at professionals in the field of naming or naming websites - the information Google often receives during the search process. For example, experts can submit a special website from the Centers for Disease Control to Google and request to name this site with the 'malaria' tab. So every time a user executes a search with the phrase 'malaria', that site will appear in Google's search results list.

Hoang Dung

Update 12 December 2018