Google Desktop Search

If you're a Windows user who uses Microsoft Office programs, consider trying out Google's new Desktop Search. As you'd expect from the name, it searches through all the text in your local files, displaying results in a Googlish way.

Holy cow. I've been playing with it for about an hour, and it appears to be way more useful than the standard document search that comes with Windows.

Here's what the Slashdot crowd is saying about it.