For those who live under a rock, Google released Google Desktop, a tool that will search your local hard drive through the google interface.

I installed it, and it seems to work pretty good. I did find it odd that the main focus is to index Microsoft stuff - a marketing ploy? But does that bother me? No, not really. Most of what I do is in a Microsoft program, other than the RSS feeds, and a switch to NewsGator could solve that problem too!

With the indexing of email, this has a chance to rival Lookout, which I also have installed. That's a great tool too.

Back to the blogs through Outlook thing. Could this be a way to have a personalized blog search tool? Save the posts from the blogs you are subscribe to, and let Google Desktop search those, and you'll have search results from sites you want and are familiar with. It'll be interesting to see where this goes, and what Microsoft's response will be.

Best line about Google Desktop: Tell Microsoft it's OK that WinFS was cut from Longhorn. I couldn't help but chuckle.