goon's Journal: google searching your machine?

just found an article about google and desktop searching using IE on the wires.

Google starts searching from the desktop
The Deskbar search software appears as an inset window on the Windows tool bar [computerworld]

Theres an faq and scant technical details at the news groups. But this post is asking pretty much exactly what I've beem working on with my code.
 
 

From: Names changed to protext the innocent
Subject: Operating System/File System search
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Newsgroups: google.public.labs.google-deskbar
Date: 2003-11-07 11:49:55 PST

I am hoping that someone at Google sees this (maybe it is already in
the works), and works on integrating search for local filesystems.
The new search utility in windows XP and 2003 is terrible, I can never
find files even when I know they are explicitly in a certain place on
my machine with a certain name or containing certain text.....

Looks like a fire and motion exercise by google and anyone even considering using this for a local file search replacement ought to read these articles.