Desktop Search wars heat up
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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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Rumors abound linking Ask Jeeves and Firefox.
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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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Googles new desktop search tool ferrets out files on hard drives much as the traditional Google search engine chases down pages in cyberspace.
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Ziff Davis - FAST launches an application to help directory publishers compete in local search, while Copernic dives into the desktop-search arena.
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Microsoft has launched its long anticipated desktop search application, and it's packed with promising features and tools that make it a strong contender coming out the gate.
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If you use shared or public computers, you have a new privacy risk to consider: Google Desktop Search. Announced last week and currently available in a beta version, Google Desktop Search allows you to scour
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Microsoft Corp joined the battle for supremacy in so-called desktop search, introducing software for quickly locating files on personal computers that challenges Googleâs two-month-old rival product.
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Richard Stiennon, Webroot vice president of threat research, said the increasing number of desktop search tools -- now coming out from Google, Yahoo, MSN and others -- may also be leveraged by attackers.
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Google&#39;s new Desktop Search software is a muscle car among search engines, racing through personal data stored inside your computer to instantly find things you can&#39;t easily locate.
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Anybody who is anybody in the Web-search realm -- and that list now includes Google, Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), Ask Jeeves (Nasdaq: ASKJ) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) -- is acting quickly to stake a claim on the most lucrative piece of real estate in the search world: personal computer users' desktops.
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The battle is on for your desktop. If it&#39;s anything like many previous computer wars, it will be fought with features as the primary weapons.
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The turf battle for desktop search is heating up, with Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and now Ask Jeeves all fielding entries. Their strategies vary, but all hope to win the dominant position on personal computer users&#39; desktops.
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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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Redmond's desktop software dominance faces an uprising of alternatives from the likes of IBM, Google and Yahoo.
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Opinion: Privacy hysterics bring old whine in new bottles to the Internet party. The desktop search beta from this Web search leader doesn&#39;t do anything you can&#39;t do already.
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DECEMBER 10, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc. and Ask Jeeves Inc. are all set to jump into the desktop search market, two months after Internet search leader Google Inc.