Google Desktop improvements

Google Desktop updated itself today, and I like the improvements. Now if I hit Ctrl twice quickly, I get a pop-up search box:



This is a redux of the command line: a simple, text-based interface to everything on your computer, and the Internet besides. It's search, file and application launching all in one. As such, it's similar to both Enso Launcher and Quicksilver. I use Launcher at home, but I like Google's non-insistence on quasi-modes. I haven't used Quicksilver.

Once Google had my attention with this new feature, I took a look at their Widgets implementation:



I love the integration with Google Calendar, and I like the double-Shift knob (although it isn't always captured perfectly?). I'll have to keep an eye out for a widget I could build.
Feed back to Chad Whitacre.