Google Desktop Search was released in beta Thursday, and it's an absolute dream come true. The ultimate labor-saving device for those of us who otherwise are pack rats, saving snips and articles and links, but forced to use several different content organizers to get the job done.

(1) You don't have to save unless it's really something you want (e.g. pdf).
(2) That leaves you to use content management tools for doing something with the content, not just store and retrieval. And that leaves software developers to focus on value-added tools to really manage integrating content with production rather than focusing on jerry-rigging a web-type environment on your PC.

This one's going to be revolutionary in the way it will seamlessly integrate your PC with the web. I've used it for half a day, and I've already started to change my interaction with information and work product.

Because it grabs a hold of everything and caches it, even if you want to delete it, right now it's got privacy problems galore for PCs that can be accessed by more than one person. Clearly, Google knows this, but wanted to get the tool out there, which I for one appreciate enormously.

Right now it's an IE tool. But note, it's not a plug-in toolbar. It sits in your tray. So it's also available for those of us who use browsers that are based on IE file organization (in my case, Maxthon, which BTW is a terrific donation tabbed browser I can't recommend highly enough) and can support the Google bar.