News Google Moves Desktop Search Out of Beta

Google's desktop search has been out for a while, but has always been pushed as an app still in beta. Not any more, as Searchzilla has released version 1.0 today. This from eWeek:

Google Inc. is taking its desktop search application out of beta on Monday with a release that supports more file formats and opens access to third-party developers.

Google Desktop Search 1.0 moves beyond the beta version's Microsoft focus by introducing support for applications from the Mozilla Foundation and America Online Inc.'s Netscape Communications.

While the beta only indexed Microsoft Outlook e-mail and Internet Explorer Web browsing history, the latest release also can search e-mail from the Mozilla Thunderbird and Netscape clients and browsing history from the Firefox and Netscape browsers, Google announced.

To make more desktop data searchable, the latest release adds indexing support for the full text of PDFs to existing support for Microsoft Office formats. It also indexes the metadata of video, images and audio, such as titles or artist information.

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holy **** that was fast. i submitted a sugestion thing 2 days ago for all of the above (except firefox, who would want that) and now its out!

/me goes to Valve to ask for HL3