Chris's Desktop Google puts a small search box on your windows start bar.

To use the search box: enter a query and hit return. The box will do two things:

1) It will open your default web browser and immediately perform a Google search in it for the query you specified.

2) It will store the query in the drop down list so that you can recall it (note, this list is temporary - it will disappear if you log off or restart windows).