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Google has launched Google Desktop and Updater for the Mac in 9 more languages: Chinese Simplified and Traditional, Dutch, UK English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. For those of you who haven't tried Google Desktop yet, you can get the latest build at http://desktop.google.com/mac . All current users will be updated to the latest and greatest automatically.
Internationalization is more than just great translations. Google Desktop for the Mac gives users fast, easy, and comprehensive search. So with this launch, we worked side by side with Googlers in Japan, France, Germany, and many other countries to make sure the product meets that goal in each of the 9 new languages. Part of that work was improving search and indexing support for non-Roman languages such as Chinese and Japanese. For our existing English users, this build also includes a lot of bug fixes (see release notes).
Note: This update will most likely require a reboot and will create a new index of the information on your computer, to improve the quality of searches across all languages.
New in version 1.1.0.520:
Feature Improvements:
• Support for 9 new languages (English UK, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese Simplified and Traditional, Japanese, and Dutch).
• Support for non-English and non-Roman languages, especially Japanese.
• Crash reporter.
• Support to ignore email identified as spam in Mail and Entourage.
• Support for contact groups in Address Book and Entourage.
• Split kernel extension into two parts to avoid future reboots on Tiger.
Bug fixes:
• Cmd-cmd hotkey is tripped accidentally
• GoogleDesktopDeamon locking up when trying to send messages to itself
• Slow performance when changes are made on a volume not being indexed
• Slow performance on files with an extraordinary number of unique terms
• Non-google pages would sometimes get OneBox results
• The Search Box might not launch after install
• Index exists on an external volume but can't be deleted in the preference panel
• Renames made to an offline volume were not detected
• Search Box not appearing correctly when the display changes
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
System Support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2007/08/google-desktop-for-mac-in-9-more.html
For my full review of Google Desktop visit:
http://www.applelinks.com/index.php/more/the_ good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_of_google_desktop_for_mac/
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