Google released the first beta version of its Google Desktop Search tool. Little download (447KB), still indexing my local content :-) As usual, this tool is coming from the Google Labs.

A good functional description from BetaNews:

Google Desktop Search provides full text search over your email, computer files, chats, and the web pages you’ve viewed. By making your computer searchable, it puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails, and bookmarks.

Google Desktop Search introduces new ways to access relevant and timely information. When you view a web page in Internet Explorer, it “caches” or stores its content so that you can later look at that same version of the page, even if its live content has changed or you’re offline. It organizes email search results into conversations, so that all email messages in the same thread are grouped into a single search result.

And a printscreen: