It's been expected for a while, so no great shock that Google have today launched (in beta, as ever) their desktop search tool.
Their take on the 'pages I've seen' challenge appears to be similar to Dan Grigsby's IE toolbar, adding to the index a local cache of web pages you've visited.
All looks very tasty, with one huge, glaring caveat: the web pages history works with IE only. Concentrating on the dominant browser makes sense in pure numerical terms, but Google are going to seriously dent their geek-kudos if they don't get a Firefox (and Safari Mac, and Linux...) version out pretty damn sharpish. And there's zero chance of me switching over from (Microsoft's) Lookout until they do.
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