Google Updates Desktop: MSFT Will Take Note

In short, the new version of Google Desktop will include APIs for any Windows application developer, letting anyone plug their application into GDS (ie, iTunes, chat, or…MSFT Office, for example). Developers can access these APIs to do two things – one, to make sure their documents are indexed by GDS, and appear as searched by GDS in any way they care to. And second, to plug Google search, all of Google search, into their apps.

Read more at John Battelle’s Searchblog: Google Updates Desktop: MSFT Will Take Note.