Google’s at it again

I’ve been reading the news rss from Computer Weekly these past few days, and an interesting piece appeared yesterday about Google. Apparently to further their market area into the desktop buisness, Google is now offering a program pack for people to install into their computers.

Here’s a list of the programs that you can install with this download:

• Google Earth - 3D Earth browser - 10MB
• Google Desktop - Desktop companion - 726K
• Picasa - Photo organizer - 3.3MB
• Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer - Search toolbar - 550K
• Google Pack Screensaver - Photo screensaver - 670K
• Google Talk - Voice and IM application - 819K

Additional Software

• Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar - Web browser - 4.8MB
• Ad-Aware SE Personal - Antispyware utility - 2.9MB
• Norton AntiVirus 2005 Special Edition - Antivirus utility - 21.9MB (6 months free)
• Adobe Reader 7 - PDF reader - 20MB
• RealPlayer - Media player - 10.8MB
• GalleryPlayer HD Images - Images - 10MB
• Trillian - Instant messenger - 9.2MB

Before downloading you can personalize the programs you want to install, so it’s not neccesary to download them all if you aren’t going to use them. It’s still not close enough to what I install on my on computer after rebooting the harddrive, but it does seem like a nice starter pack for people unfamiliar with what they should install. And I definetly like the Firefox bit. I think they should include Spybot too though.