How do i get rid of google desktop?

My macbook pro has been freezing intermittently since installing 10.6 I've opened the console to see if I could see any problems and I am getting this message, over and over again :
23September2009 23 Sep 2009 22:56:05 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.google.Desktop.Daemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
23September2009 23 Sep 2009 22:56:15 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.google.Desktop.Daemon[635]) Bug: launchdcorelogic.c:4158 (23932):2
23September2009 23 Sep 2009 22:56:15 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.google.Desktop.Daemon[635]) posix_spawn("/Library/Google/Google Desktop/GoogleDesktopDaemon.bundle/Contents/MacOS/GoogleDesktopDaemon", ...): No such file or directory
23September2009 23 Sep 2009 22:56:15 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.google.Desktop.Daemon[635]) Exited with exit code: 1
This pops up every few seconds. I don't have google desktop installed, but did long ago.
Can anyone shed any light on this for me.
Many thanks in advance.

this suggests that you did not uninstall google desktop correctly. it comes with an uninstaller and that's what you should have used. I'm guessing you simply trashed the app which is not enough if an application was installed using an installer. since google desktop is not snow leopard compatible you can not use the uninstaller now.
do a finder search for com.google.desktop and delete everything you find. then restart the computer. make sure you include system files in the search. they are excluded by default. to include them enter command+f in finder to start a search. then click on "kind", hold the mouse button, scroll and click on "other". in the resulting popup select "system files" and include them in the search.

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