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Desktop Info VS Google Desktop

Compare Desktop Info VS Google Desktop and see what are their differences

Desktop Info logo Desktop Info

This little application displays system information on your desktop in a similar way to some other...

Google Desktop logo Google Desktop

The power of Google on your desktop.
  • Desktop Info Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-01-24
  • Google Desktop Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-12-02

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Desktop Info and Google Desktop)
Monitoring Tools
100 100%
0% 0
File Manager
0 0%
100% 100
Command Line Tools
100 100%
0% 0
Mac
0 0%
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Google Desktop seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Desktop Info mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Desktop Info yet. Tracking of Desktop Info recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Google Desktop mentions (1)

  • Unable to search for 'Word' documents that have content in headers/footers. They just don't appear.
    Google used to have a desktop product… but that was a long time ago (http://desktop.google.com). Depending on how technical you are, there is Elasticsearch and Tika that can crawl office documents. Source: over 2 years ago

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GKrellM - GKrellM is a single process stack of system monitors which supports applying themes to match its...

DocFetcher - DocFetcher is a portable German/English open source desktop search application.