Google Desktop allowed local searches of a user's emails, computer files, music, photos, chats and Web pages viewed. Launched January 1, 2008; shut down September 1, 2011 — it lived 3 years. One of 26 Google products killed in 2011. Google Desktop was a computer program with desktop search capabilities, created by Google for Linux, Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows systems. It allowed text searches of a user's email messages, computer files, music, photos, chats, web pages viewed, and the ability to display "Google Gadgets" on the user's desktop in a sidebar. Wiki link Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).