Microsoft launches desktop search tool
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US software company Microsoft has launched a beta version of its MSN Toolbar Suite, with desktop search functionality that can help users find documents, media files or e-mail messages on their PCs.
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The company's Desktop Search utility is an impressive way to find information on your computer.
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Desktop search can help you sort through your computer's contents
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Microsoft has unveiled beta version of a new MSN Toolbar Suite that lets users search all documents, media files and emails on their PCs at the same time as searching the Web.
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Microsoft has warned that it&#39;s preparing a Google killer in the form of a better search tool. But while MSN fine-tunes its algorithms, Google has struck at the heart of Windows with a beta release tool to search PC desktops.
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INTERNET search giant Google has unveiled a new desktop program that allows users to search the web as well as their own computer files in a move analysts said could be a challenge to Microsoft.
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Ask Jeeves has joined the throng of search giants offering their services on your desktop with its own desktop search tool. The beta is a free download from http://download.
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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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It looks to be all out war. Microsoft has announced the launch date for a test version of desktop search software to rival Google&#39;s beta search application released earlier this month.
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SEATTLE - Microsoft has become the second tech-industry giant to offer software for searching through computer desktops, a technology it claims is superior to that launched by Google two months ago.
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Ask JeevesÂ will launch a test version of its desktop search tool on Wednesday, following the launch of similar tools by rivals MicrosoftÂ on Monday and GoogleÂ  in October, and ahead of expected entries from America OnlineÂ (AOL) and Yahoo.
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Two months after Google opened up a whole new market with its desktop search tool, Microsoft has joined the party with the release of its own beta test version.
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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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Ask Jeeves will launch a test version of its desktop search tool on Wednesday, following the launch of similar tools by rivals Microsoft on Monday and Google in October, and ahead of expected entries from America Online and Yahoo.
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Google unveils its first desktop application for searching through personal files on the PC and through a person's Web history.
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Privately held Copernic Technologies on Tuesday released free desktop search software ahead of expected offerings from Microsoft Corp.
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Microsoft debuted a test-version of a new desktop search product Monday that scans hard drives for information in saved e-mails, pictures, Web pages, PDF files, and word processing documents, among other files.