Google Desktop + Google Deskbar = ??

By now you've heard that Google has released the beta version of Google Desktop, their new tool to search your local drive, Outlook email, AIM chats, and browser history. It is a slick tool for free, and it makes Microsoft's built-in search feel like using a card catalogue.

What I haven't read in all the Google blogs is how to combine the Google Desktop with the Google Deskbar. The Deskbar sits in your taskbar and lets you do a Google search regardless of what application is open. Alone it is a pretty powerful tool. But combine it with Google Desktop, and it will completely change your computer experience.

It is pretty easy really. Once both tools are downloaded and installed, go to Google Desktop and do a search on the word "test". Copy the URL from the results. Now go to the Google Deskbar options menu, where it allows you to add customized searches. Paste the URL you had copied, and replace the word "test" with {1}. Assign it a control letter, and you're done.

Now you can instantaneously search all your files conveniently from your taskbar.

Goooooo Google! Now if they'd only come out with URL tagging tool like Yahoo My Web or del.icio.us.