Search wars hit desktop computers
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Microsoft and Google look set to clash over their rival ways of searching desktop computers.
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Ask Jeeves today becomes the latest search engine to join the battle to organize the disparate information spread across users&#39; computers.
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Desktop search is not new: it is already built into the Start menu of Microsoft Windows XP. However, not everyone is aware it exists, it excludes lots of file types, the results are generally poor, and it
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Google&#39;s latest service, Desktop Search, promises to be one of its most interesting innovations, and also one of its more controversial ones.
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Ask Jeeves Inc. on Tuesday joined competitors in announcing plans to release a desktop search application that would list information from a user&#39;s PC along with web-search results.
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Reports say desktop search interferes with other engines, but Justice Department isn't eager to reopen case.
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A new battle in the multibillion-dollar online search war begins today as software giant Microsoft unveils a test version of its new search engine, looking remarkably like one of its chief rivals, Google.
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It should be as easy to search a computer as it is to search the Web. And Google, the current king of Web-searching, recently introduced a new desktop program for Windows
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Results from competing engines appear side by side on Australian search site SearchBoth.
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Google&#39;s foray into the desktop search market has this week hit it&#39;s first competition, as rival offerings have been launched by both Microsoft and Ask Jeeves.
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MicrosoftÂ has joined the desktop search fray with its release Monday of the beta test version of a suite of tools designed to let users find information stored in their PCs.
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Google's Desktop Search application indexes a PC hard drive when it's not being used
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New search tools include both people and discussion finders.
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The online search battle was extended earlier this week, when Microsoft launched its new desktop search tool - allowing users to find their favorite music, email, acrobat files and other documents in a friendly and effective manner.
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Internet company Yahoo announced yesterday that it is at work on a desktop search product. The offering would allow people to search their own PCs as easily as they can currently search the internet.
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Yahoo is adding a tool to search computer hard drives as it scrambles to catch up with Google and stay a step ahead of Microsoft in the battle to help users sort through gobs of information on the internet and the desktop.
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Microsoft has entered the desktop search fray, releasing an initial version of software to scour a PC hard drive.