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gdSuite is an add-on to Google Desktop. With Google Desktop and gdSuite, you can instantly find emails (from Outlook and Outlook Express), chats (in AOL and AOL Instant Message [AIM]), and web pages you've viewed in Internet Explorer. Plus, you can can find any file by filename and can search inside Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files. Best of all, Google Desktop and gdSuite are completely free!

gdSuite takes searching your own computer with Google Desktop to a new level. Besides all the cool Google Desktop features seen here, you can engage advanced filters based on the following:

• date (within the last year, month, or week; or between two specific dates)
  
• medium/item type (file, AIM, e-mail, or web page)
  
• file extension
  
• file name
  
• folder name (with subfolders on/off)
  
• what the web site address contains
  
• what a web site is titled
  
• who an e-mail is from
  
• the subject of an e-mail
  
• who an AIM conversation was with
  
• text in an item
  

Not only does gdSuite filter the results, it also shows them to you in any to use Windows program that mimcs the look and feel of the built in Windows Search.

gdSuite also integrates into Windows Explorer to make searching as fast and easy as possible. Just right click any folder or drive and click Search with gdSuite... to start a new gdSuite search of that folder.

Download: gdSuite 1.1
Screenshot: gdSuite Main Window
View: gdSuite Homepage

What's new in 1.1:

• Faster Searches
  
• Better auto-configuration when you first install gdSuite (it actually works now!)
  
• A large number of other enhancements, speed-ups, bug fixes, and tweaks. For example, gdSuite now detects if Google Desktop is running, and if it isn't, gdSuite offers to start it for you.
  

What's being said about gdSuite

“[gdSuite] bring[s] Google closer to creating an interface that Microsoft is likely to deliver.” - NewsFactor

“gdSuite … gives Google Desktop Search an interface, and some much needed advanced features” - InsideGoogle

“I'm glad to have the additional options for those times when Google Desktop doesn't find exactly what I needed quickly” - SearchEngineWatch, on gdSuite